Spanish Recipe: Strawberries & Cream (fresas con crema)

If you want to treat your kids to something sweet, we highly recommend strawberries and cream. They’re delicious and they’re super popular worldwide.

Most importantly, did you know your kids can learn Spanish through this delicious dessert? It’s true! You can find strawberries and cream in many Spanish speaking countries!

In many markets in Mexico, you can find some street stalls selling them, and it’s been like this for years. It has also been especially done at home during family time.

But even though it was already a common dessert in Mexico, it’s started to become more and more popular. Places that are particularly dedicated to sell “fresas con crema” in this country just keep increasing. It’s one of the favorite sweets of many Mexicans.

So, yes, this sweet treat it’s the perfect opportunity to learn some Spanish. But for this to happen, remember to allow your kids to help you cook this instead of just eating it.

What You’ll Need (Lo que necesitarás)

• Strawberries – Fresas
• Sour cream – Crema ácida
• Sugar – Azúcar
• Sweetened condensed milk – Lechera / Leche condensada azucarada
• Bowl – Tazón
• Bowl or wineglass or cup – Tazón ó copa/copa de vino ó taza
• Spoon – Cuchara
• Knife – Cuchillo
• Disinfectant for fruits and vegetables – Desinfectante de frutas y verduras

For toppings, choose from:

• Chocolate sprinkles – Chispas de chocolate / Chispitas de chocolate / Granillo de chocolate
• Rainbow sprinkles – Chispas de colores / Chispitas de colores / Granillo de colores
• M&M’s – M&M’s / Eme y emes
• Kit Kat – Kit Kat
• Type of round chocolates from Mexico – Lunetas
• Another Mexican chocolate – Kranky
• Chocolate syrup – Jarabe líquido de chocolate
• Whipped cream – Crema batida / Chantilly / Crema Chantilly
• Chocolate covered raisins – Pasas con chocolate
• Chopped pecans – Nuez picada
• Cinnamon – Canela
• Oreo cookies – Galletas Oreo / Oreos
• Grated coconut – Coco rallado
• Granola – Granola
• Chocolate wafer sticks – Barquillos de chocolate

The Mexican chocolates mentioned here, you can easily find in Mexican stores. They’re among other sweets and candies, and they also have milk. They’re not dark chocolate.

Instructions / Instrucciones

1. Cut off the strawberries’ stems.
2. Wash the strawberries only with water.
3. Pour water in a bowl and add a couple of disinfectant drops, or as many as the disinfectant indicates. Then add the strawberries into the bowl and keep them there for around 10 minutes.
4. Once again wash the strawberries, just with water.
5. Cut each strawberry in half. Some people prefer to leave the entire strawberries just like that and to not cut them. You can also do that if you want.
6. Pour the strawberries into your bowl, wineglass, cup or whichever container you’re going to use.
7. Add the sour cream. For 1 glass is around 2 to 3 spoons of cream.
8. Sprinkle some sugar on top. (skip this step if you want to add sweetened condensed milk in step 10)
9. The classic “fresas con crema” dessert is just this. But many people and places that sell strawberries and cream love to add more things. So, you could leave it like this, but for kids it might be more fun to add the rest of the things we’ll show you below.
10. Add sweetened condensed milk, as much as you want. If you choose to add sweetened condensed milk, don’t sprinkle any sugar. That means you have to skip step 8. Otherwise, it’ll taste too sweet.
11. Add any toppings you want; choose your favorite ones. It can be just 1 or 2, or even more if you want to.

Eat and enjoy!

If you want the whole experience of eating at a Mexican place where they sell “fresas con crema”, definitely follow all the steps.

Spanish Phrases to Use While Preparing Fresas con Crema

Here are some words and phrases in Spanish that you and your children can use while preparing strawberries and cream:

1. Mommy, can we make strawberries and cream, pretty please? / Mami, ¿podemos hacer fresas con crema, porfis/por favorcito?
2. Come help me prepare strawberries and cream, please. / Ven a ayudarme a preparar fresas con crema, por favor.
3. Mmm, I love strawberries and cream! / ¡Mmm, me encantan las fresas con crema!
4. Pour the cream on top of the strawberries. Be careful not to drop it. / Vierte la crema encima de las fresas. Ten cuidado de no tirarla.
5. Pass me the sweetened condensed milk, please. / Pásame la lechera, por favor.
6. They look delicious! / ¡Se ven deliciosas!
7. Did you like them? / ¿Te gustaron?
8. They’re delicious! / ¡Están deliciosas!
9. Which topping do you want? / ¿Qué topping/coberturas/ingredientes quieres?
10. I want chocolate sprinkles and oreo cookies on top, please. / Quiero chispas de chocolate y galletas Oreo encima, por favor.

TTruFluency Kids Has a Sweet and Fun Recipe for Spanish Learning

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We know that children are energetic and creative. That’s why we teach through different fun activities in Spanish. They’ll sing, dance, read stories, play games, do crafts, and cook! This way they’ll be engaged in the learning process, and they’ll acquire the Spanish language more naturally.

The best of all is that we base our classes on the Bellieu Method. It consists of encouraging students to speak in their target language in every single class. This is the best way your kids will achieve Spanish fluency.

Sign up your kids for our next 4-week session! Soon, they’ll be the ones asking for their “fresas con crema” in Mexico in complete Spanish!