Watermelon Popsicles
These are a little trouble to make but are full of fruit and pretty snazzy looking too. Fill the tip of each popsicle holder with strained, pureed kiwi. Let freeze. Then add pureed seedless watermelon, thinned with your choice of juice and place in freezer for 50-60 minutes. Once slushy, add watermelon seeds, I mean mini chocolate chips, to each pop and stir.
Layered Juicy Popsicles
Once loaded up with a variety of colours and flavours of juice, get the kids involved in deciding the order of the pour-freeze-pour-freeze routine. It’s always fun once they are done, to see what they look like. And how they taste.
Lemon Raspberry Popsicles
Plop 2-3 fresh raspberries in the tip of each popsicle holder and cover with a pink or red juice. Pop in the freezer for a few hours and finish the top with lemonade.
Smoothie Popsicles
Blend, half a banana, equal amounts of berries, 4 tablespoons of vanilla ice cream (or yogurt), and enough apple juice to get a pouring consistency. Pour into popsicle molds and freeze.
Lemon-Buttermilk Popsicles
This Epicurious recipe may sounds strange and is probably for the more sophisticated palates in your party but it is surprisingly yummy; sweet and salty, creamy, but most of all, very lemony. We’ll be making this one again and again in our household. Here's the gist: Whisk 3/4 cup sugar, 5 tablespoons fresh lemon juice, 2 tablespoons grated lemon rind, salt, and 1 2/3 cups buttermilk together. Pour in molds and freeze.
For 50 more popsicle-making ideas, check out this list at Tip Nut.
(Images: Jackie Boucher)
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One of my favorite (and easiest) home-made popsicles is orange juice and yogurt. It tastes like a tangy creamsicle. Yum!!
OK, that all sounds great, but what's the best popsicle mold? The ones I've bought in the past don't work very well.
Is there a secret to getting the popsicle OUT of the mold? I had some stick & ended up breaking the handle off the popsicle.
Meggo, I like to run the plastic popsicle mold under warm water briefly - that usually allows it to slide out easier.
We have the popsicle molds shown in the first photo. They are great... better than any other ones I've used. They have a very deep cup to catch melted popsicle, and a built-in straw so you can slurp out the melted yummy-ness.
I bought some great rocket pop popsicle molds. You can get them on amazon. The popsicles come out really easily if you run them under warm water for awhile and then tug until they come off or keep them under water until they come off a little easier. My son is really excited about these and I have found it's a great way to squeeze a little extra fruit into his diet. You can see a picture of them on my blog at:
http://ds4bs.blogspot.com/2010/06/blast-off.html
Best popsicle purchase I've made is my Zoku.
We have the popsicle molds in the first photo too! I was wondering if they'd be good! This is timely since we're wanting to make our own popsicles this weekend!!
Yum! We make all kinds of popcicles all summer. Thanks for the inspiration.
@pennycarnival We have two different sets made by Tovolo and they are great. We got them on amazon.
@meggo I run them under warm water for a few seconds before unmolding.
I can't stop making these Tarragon Blackberry Grapefruit pops. SOO good. If they sound a little, well, out there, skip the tarragon or just use the tarragon simple syrup (skip also adding the herb in the fruit puree). I like a strong tarragon flavor, but these are easy to adjust however you like.
@stickricemama: i want one of those so badly!! hmm... they make good pops, huh? i just might have to treat the family!
thanks for this roundup.
What are the ones in the first picture called? They look awesome!