Impossible Spoonful Copycat Recipe (Vegan) Disney's Avengers Campus!

The Impossible Spoonful, a vegan dish, is out of this world! This recipe is inspired by Pym Test Kitchen's Impossible Spoonful at Disneyland's Avengers Campus. Leave it to Disney to make something as basic as “meatballs and pasta” brand new!

Don't leave now if you're unfamiliar with Disneyland's Impossible Spoonful! This is an amazing recipe for both GIANT and mini Vegan Impossible Meatballs. It's such a fun, family friendly meal!

Inspired by Disneyland's Avengers Campus

Disneyland's Pym Test Kitchen is a nod to the movie Ant-Man, and more specifically scientist Hank Pym, played by Michael Douglas. Hank created the “Pym Particle” capable of growing or shrinking objects and, in the case of Ant-Man, people!

Well, someone from Pym Test Kitchen got their hands on the miracle Pym Particle formula! And they’re using it to supersize and shrink their menu items.

Disney's Impossible Spoonful features one giant and one mini meatball. The pasta’s also undergone a transformation, with both regular and miniature “rigatoni.” (The small pasta is a variety called ditalini.) The result is both delicious and comedic! 

The Impossible Spoonful's Giant Spoon

Even more amusing, Disney serves the dish in a giant spoon (hence the name of the dish Impossible Spoonful.) In actuality, the spoons are 24-ounce, stainless steel soup ladles with artistically bent handles.

To make giant "spoon" bowls, we purchased 2 different ladles from Amazon:

1. Vollrath Heavy Duty Stainless Steel Ladle (24 oz.). This is the ladle that Disneyland uses (according to identical markings on the back of the ladle's handle) and the priciest of the two. The ladle's handle would not bend at room temperature, so we baked it in the oven at 400 degrees F for 20 minutes. Then, we picked up the ladle with potholders (as it's very hot!) and pressed the handle against a hard surface to bend it. As you can see from the photo below (pictured right), this was very difficult to bend! While we didn't achieve our desired shape, it's very sturdy and fun to eat out of.

2. Winco Stainless Steel Soup Ladle (24 oz.). We baked this ladle in the oven at 400 degrees F for 10 minutes. Then, we picked up the ladle with potholders (as it's very hot!) and pressed the handle against a hard surface to bend it into our desired shape. This was much easier to bend than the heavy duty, Vollrath brand ladle. As you can see from the photo above (pictured left), we bent the handle twice into a shape very similar to Disneyland's version.

What's Impossible Burger?

Like the Pym Particle, Impossible Burger is a scientific breakthrough. You can read more about the science here but, in short, this is a plant-based food that mimics real beef. Especially for vegans who crave meat, Impossible Burger is a miracle.

Us meat eaters are astonished by how much it tastes like beef. Even the process of cooking the Impossible Burger is similar to cooking beef. Raw Impossible Burger is pink, but turns brown once cooked.

It’s no wonder that Disney parks use Impossible Burger so much. In many cases, the vegan options are tastier and more coveted than the meat varieties (and that goes for people of all dietary preferences and restrictions). They really have done the impossible here!

Should I gently form or tightly roll the meatballs?

The short answer is, it's up to you! We did both, and they were both great! As you can see in the photo below, the final product looks quite different.

The loosely packed meatball, made by gently forming the meatball mixture in your hands, has an uneven crust. This looks more like a real meatball and the texture inside is a bit softer.

To tightly pack the meatball, you roll it in your hands. This creates a perfectly shaped ball with a smooth, uniform crust. The texture is denser than the loosely formed meatball, which we enjoy. But overall, if we had to choose one, we'd loosely pack them.

Pasta x 2

In addition to scrumptious meatballs, this dish features both ditalini and mezzi rigatoni. If ditalini pasta looks familiar, it's also found in Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge's Peka Pasta Rings (copycat recipe here).

Luckily, Barrilla’s Mezzi Rigatoni and Ditalini pastas have the same cook time. That means you boil them together as if they came out of the same box. It’s that easy!

These Impossible Meatballs are a Family Favorite

You're gonna love these meatballs. We're willing to bet our laboratory that you and your family won't be able to tell the difference between these Impossible meatballs and ones made with real beef.

We encourage you to serve them to your family without clueing them in to this latest scientific discovery. Then, get out your laboratory notebook, and observe how well they enjoy the Impossible Spoonful. We look forward to hearing your observations!