Make some strawberry yogurt popsicles and some creamy
orange ones and let your kids decide which are best!
[Photo by Tonya Staab]
Biting into a freezing cold popsicle brings back so many happy summer
childhood memories. The first icy bite of a popsicle always used to give
me a popsicle headache but it was a price worth paying!
Somehow, the popsicles my mother made always tasted better than
the misshapen mass-produced ones you could buy from grocery stores.
Homemade popsicles are a lot cheaper than ready-made ones so why not
start making some popsicles and begin to save some money!
Here are two of my favourite popsicle recipes.
1. Strawberry yoghurt popsicle
You will need (to make 12 popsicle
12 popsicle moulds
A pack of Strawberry Jell-O pudding
A container of strawberry yoghurt
2 mugs of fresh or frozen strawberries – enough to fill a salad sieve
up to the brim
1. Firstly, pour the entire contents of your strawberry Jell-O packet into
an electric food blender and then add one generous cup of boiling water
on top.
2. Next, spoon in a cup and a half of strawberry yoghurt – you can eat the
rest of the yoghurt as an appetiser before you eat your popsicles.
3. Add your strawberries to the yoghurt and Jell-O and noisily blend all
the ingredients together to produce a gloriously gloopy liquid.
4. After everything is liquidised, pour the concoction into 12 upright
popsicle moulds so that the moulds are almost full.
5. Pop your popsicle tops on top of the moulds to seal them and leave
them to sit in your freezer for about two and a half hours. Don’t put your
feet up yet – it’s time to use your new popsicle-making expertise to make
another recipe.
Creamy orange popsicles
You will need (to make 12 popsicles)
12 popsicle moulds
A pack of orange Jell-O pudding
Fresh orange juice
4 scoops of vanilla ice cream
1. Pour the Jell-O in the blender first and add one cup of boiling water.
2. This recipe might seem a little similar to the strawberry yoghurt
recipe at this stage but now it’s time to pour in a cup of orange juice. It
doesn’t really matter if the orange juice is freshly-squeezed or made from
concentrate – so long as it’s juice with an orange flavour you will be fine!
3. Now roll up your sleeves and deposit four succulent scoops of vanilla
ice cream into your blender. The contents of your blender will look like
an artful mess until you depress the blend button and everything gets
liquidised.
4. Pour the creamy orange liquid into your moulds and pop the sticks on
top to seal the popsicles.
5. Now it is time to deliver them to the freezer for two-and-a-half hours.
These popsicles, and the strawberry yoghurt ones, are so delicious – you
might need to get a bigger freezer to cope with your kids’ demand for
them.
James Christie writes for Yellow Moon arts and crafts
company. Check out Yellow Moon’s fantastic range of
summer sports – great games to play at happy picnic events.
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