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This fresas con crema recipe is the cold, creamy Mexican strawberries and cream dessert you want when strawberries are sweet, juicy, and begging for something luscious. Instead of a flat, overly sweet sauce, this version is rich and silky with just enough tang to make every bite taste bright, fresh, and balanced.
The magic is in the cream. It clings to the berries instead of pooling at the bottom of the bowl, so every spoonful is loaded with juicy strawberries and that sweet, velvety cream sauce. It’s simple, nostalgic, refreshing, and exactly the kind of no-bake dessert that disappears fast on warm days.
This reminds me of my favorite fruit desserts and salads. If you’d like more delicious recipes like that, I hope you’ll try our creamy fruit salad, Ambrosia Salad, 5-Cup Salad (my mom’s favorite, too!), and old-fashioned grape salad!
What Is Frecas Con Crema?
Fresas con crema is a Latin dessert, which translates to “strawberries and cream” in English. And that’s just what it is. The sweetened cream sauce in this recipe is enriched with other ingredients to create the most delicious, scrumptious cream recipe that has ever been poured over fruit!
This is wonderful, serve as a light dessert, highlighting seasonally ripe strawberries, a decadent breakfast, or a mid-afternoon snack. This little gem of a recipe will have your family begging to eat all their fruit!
Fresas Con Crema Ingredients
- Strawberries: I only use fresh strawberries. Frozen can work, but the texture of fresh is far superior. I like to add thin slices of fruit first, then top the dessert cups with chopped fruit. Wash, remove stems, hull, then get ready to cut up!
- Mexican Crema: This is a type of cream similar to sour cream but with a thinner consistency and a richer, slightly tangier, less sour flavor. It’s similar to crème fraîche and is used in many recipes, including as a topping for tacos.
- Heavy Cream: I only use heavy cream; lower-fat substitutes don’t create the right texture and mouthfeel. Some recipes include evaporated milk, but we use a combo of heavy cream and sweetened condensed milk.
- Sweetened Condensed Milk: This adds sweetness, richness, and helps to create a thick, velvety texture.
- Vanilla Extract: This enhances the overall flavor of the dish by adding complexity, sweetness, and depth.
Tips + Variations
- Serving Dishes: You’ll need a 10-12 ounce clear glass or a small bowl. Clear glass allows you to see the beauty of this dessert.
- Different Fruit: This recipe is delicious with a mix of berries. My family loves this with a combination of blackberries, blueberries, strawberries, and raspberries. It’s wonderful with mango, peaches, nectarines, or grapes, too.
- Strawberry Cream: Some recipes will suggest processing more of the strawberries with the heavy cream until it’s smooth. This is a delicious variation, but I must say, I prefer it as I make it in the recipe card below. I love the sweet, plain cream mixture with the strawberries.
- Media Crema: This is a Mexican-style product made by Nestle, available at most larger supermarkets. It’s Mexican table cream. Some people use this ingredient in the sauce. I prefer the combination on the recipe card, again. We use heavy cream in its place, which is richer and, in my opinion, makes a more delicious sauce.
- Greek Yogurt: Swap the sour cream out with vanilla, strawberry, or plain Greek yogurt. Doing so will make the dessert a bit more tart and add some great protein to the dish.
Storing + Freezing + Make-Ahead
- How Long Can You Keep This In The Fridge? Fresas con Crema is best eaten right away. As soon as the fruit is dressed, it begins to release moisture and continues to do so as it sits, causing the crema to dilute. The fruit will also soften. It will keep in the refrigerator for 3-4 days. Keep in an airtight container.
- Can You Freeze This? No, this Mexican fresas con crema doesn’t freeze well.
- Make-Ahead Tips: You can wash, dry, and then store the fruit in the fridge.
How to Make Fresas Con Crema
- Mix all the liquid ingredients in a bowl.
- Add the strawberries to the dessert bowls.
- Pour the sweet cream mixture onto each cup.
- Serve immediately or store in the fridge.
***See the full instructions below.
More Mexican Dessert Recipes
- Strawberry Tres Leches Cake
- Biscochitos
- Polvorones
- Margarita Cake (no alcohol!)
More Fruity Desserts
- Frog Eye Salad
- Watergate Salad
- Pineapple Fluff
- Peach Fluff
- Cherry Fluff
- Cranberry Fluff
- Cranberry Jello Salad
- 4th of July Trifle
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Fresas Con Crema
Ingredients
- 3 pounds fresh strawberries half sliced lengthwise and half chopped into about 1/4 inch pieces
- 3/4 cup Mexican crema
- 1/4 cup sour cream
- 1 1/2 cups heavy cream
- 1 (14-ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- fresh mint leaves, optional
Instructions
- Wash, hull, and slice half of the strawberries into 1/4 inch slices and the other half of the strawberries into about 1/4 inch cubes.
- In a large mixing bowl, using a handheld electric mixer, mix Mexican crema (3/4 cup), sour cream (1/4 cup), heavy cream (1 1/2 cups), and sweetened condensed milk (1 can), and vanilla (2 teaspoons) on low speed until it is creamy, smooth, and there are no lumps from the sour cream.
- Add 1/2 cup sliced strawberries into 6 small bowls or clear glasses. Top each cup with 1/2 cup sweet cream mixture, then top with cubed strawberries. Garnish the top with a sprig of mint if desired.
- Serve immediately or store in the fridge.
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Notes
- Serving Dishes: You'll need a 10-12 ounce clear glass or a small bowl. Clear glass allows you to see the beauty of this dessert.
- Different Fruit: This recipe is delicious with a mix of berries. My family loves this with a combination of blackberries, blueberries, strawberries, and raspberries. It's wonderful with mango, peaches, nectarines, or grapes, too.
- Strawberry Cream: Some recipes will suggest processing more of the strawberries with the heavy cream until it's smooth. This is a delicious variation, but I must say, I prefer it as I make it in the recipe card below. I love the sweet, plain cream mixture with the strawberries.
- Media Crema: This is a Mexican-style product made by Nestle, available at most larger supermarkets. It's Mexican table cream. Some people use this ingredient in the sauce. I prefer the combination on the recipe card, again. We use heavy cream in its place, which is richer and, in my opinion, makes a more delicious sauce.
- Greek Yogurt: Swap the sour cream out with vanilla, strawberry, or plain Greek yogurt. Doing so will make the dessert a bit more tart and add some great protein to the dish.
Nutrition
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I love strawberries since I was a kid. I made this for my daughter, she loooved it so much! Now I have to serve it every night. LOL.
Hahaha! That’s so cute, Jessica! We’re glad you both like this dessert! Thanks for the positive feedback and 5-star rating!!