A 15-foot spoon stirred up an Arizona community when the giant red utensil was stolen from a local Dairy Queen and disappeared for more than a week.

Phoenix residents were served a spoonful of mystery until a man searching for virtual Pokémon stumbled upon the larger-than-life cutlery near a middle school baseball field about two miles from the scene of the heist.

Michael Foster, 52, was playing the mobile game Pokémon Go when he spotted the big red spoon — valued at $7,000 — on the grass around 7 a.m.

“The first thing I did was send a picture to my wife and I said, ‘It’s the spoon.’ She said call the police,” Foster told The Associated Press.

Cops responded to the scene and scooped up the pricey spoon after a school maintenance worker and Foster got it over the fence.

The officers then strapped it to the top of their police cruiser like a Christmas tree, Foster said.

“I can confirm the Dairy Queen ‘red spoon’ was located and recovered this morning,” Sgt. Brian Bower said in an email Monday.

Foster said no one else was around when he came across the enormous piece of silverware.

“I did kind of look around and was like ‘What?’ One guy did finally come by and was like, ‘Is that what I think it is?’ Yeah, that’s the spoon,” he said.

The massive spoon had been missing since March 25 when two men and one woman removed it from its base outside the Dairy Queen and lifted it onto a large flatbed connected to a pickup truck, according to surveillance footage released by Phoenix police over the weekend.

Police are still searching for the three suspects.

The over-the-spoon Dairy Queen, Raman and Puja Kalra, said getting another made, delivered and installed would put them out more than $7,000.

The big red spoon display is a nod to DQ’s practice of putting plastic red spoons in their signature blended soft-serve treats known as Blizzards. It’s also a popular Instagram photo backdrop.

They printed T-shirts for staff that said “Where’s my spoon?” and offered a reward of free Blizzards, albeit normal-sized, for anyone who helped bring back the giant spoon.

Raman Kalra said he picked up his giant utensil from the police Monday.

“We are happy to have our spoon back and we are looking forward to the neighborhood creating more smiles and stories with this now world-famous spoon,” he said in an email.

With Post wires