Easy Dairy Free Strawberry Mousse (Gluten Free)

This creamy and fluffy dairy free strawberry mousse is so easy to make and it requires only a few ingredients! It’s delicious and beautiful for serving at parties, plus it’s gluten free and made without cashews.

If you’re a fan of creamy and fluffy mousse, you’re going to love this our newest recipe for strawberry mousse since it’s super easy to make!

This recipe is based on our paleo layered fruit mousse, but this recipe is made with just strawberries and has a few different ingredients so this version isn’t paleo.

You can have some fun with this recipe, too, and use it for topping cakes and cupcakes, or using it to fill chocolate eggs for Easter (I add some notes on how to do that in the post!).

Why you’ll love our dairy free strawberry mousse

This strawberry mousse recipe is super easy to make and it only uses a handful of ingredients! Unlike our lemon mousse recipe, you don’t need to cook this recipe so there is less hands-on time for this recipe.

Our recipe is also very easy to customize to make it sweeter by adding more powdered sugar, or you can even swap the powdered sugar for a powdered sugar alternative (like powdered Swerve) for a lower sugar option.

How to make easy strawberry mousse

Our recipe for strawberry mousse is really simple, here are the steps (this is just an overview, the full recipe card is at the end of the post):

1. Take some freeze dried strawberry slices and add them to a small blender or mortar and pestle and grind into fine powder. You’ll likely need about 2-3 ounces of freeze dried strawberries for this recipe. Or you can use strawberry powder if you don’t want to grind up the strawberries yourself.
2. Add a full 16-ounce carton (1 pint) of cold Silk dairy free heavy whipping cream to a large bowl with the cream of tartar and beat until fluffy. I like to use the whisk attachment for my hand mixer for this.
3. Whisk in a dash of salt, powdered sugar, and vanilla until mixed well.
4. Add the strawberry powder and mix it into the whipped cream. You might have to add half, then mix, then add the rest to make it easier to mix.
5. Scoop or pipe into individual cups and chill for several hours or overnight.

You can change up this recipe a little by adding more strawberry powder if you want a stronger strawberry flavor, or you can add more powdered sugar to make it sweeter. As written, this has a good balance of sweet, tart, and strawberry flavors you can adjust as you like.

For a lighter mousse that’s lower in fat, you can try using the So Delicious Cocowhip instead of the Silk heavy whipping cream or use a 50/50 mix of each to create a lighter mousse.

Check out our blueberry version of this recipe!

Strawberry cream chocolate eggs

We had a little fun with this recipe and decided to make some strawberry cream chocolate Easter eggs with this strawberry mousse recipe!

I took some melted allergy-friendly chocolate (such as Enjoy Life or Nestle Simply Delicious), and added it to a large silicone Easter egg mold and let the chocolate set. Fill each with some strawberry mousse, then add another layer of chocolate over that.

I put these in the freezer to get everything firm for removing from the mold (I didn’t want it breaking while I removed them from the mold) and then brought them back up to room temperature for strawberry cream eggs.

You can even decide to leave these in the freezer for frozen strawberry cream eggs, it’s a bit like chocolate covered strawberry ice cream! We tried these out frozen and they are yummy. They just need a few minutes on the counter to thaw a little for easier eating, but they are delicious.

If you want to make this for a different occasion than Easter, you can use the same concept but with a different silicone mold design.

Check out our other allergy friendly strawberry recipes!

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