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It’s official! Summer is here! As lovely as summertime is with its endless sunshine and lazy poolside days, summer brings heat waves and long bouts of hot weather. But, you can be ready! Prepare yourself now with these 3 easy (but gourmet) homemade popsicle recipes that will keep your freezer stocked with all of the icy goodness that will put the fire out on any sweltering afternoon!
Homemade Popsicle Recipes!
I am always armed with a popsicle to battle against the hottest days of summer. Making homemade popsicles are easier and yummier than you think! I get tired of the neon colored, sugar water variety that I find in my grocery store freezer anyway. With just a bit of time, you can utilize the fresh summer ingredients and make your own in a snap.
Today, I am going to share 3 gourmet popsicle recipes with you. Don’t be scared of the word gourmet though, these popsicles are easy, and only require a few ingredients.
Watermelon Mint Pops
Ingredients:
3 cups of chopped, seeded watermelon
1/3 cup of sugar
2 tablespoons of orange juice
mint leaves (optional)
Combine watermelon, sugar, and orange juice in blender. Blend until smooth. Put a mint leaf into each popsicle mold. Pour watermelon mixture into popsicle molds and freeze overnight.
Peaches n’ Cream Pops
Ingredients:
2-3 peaches, cut into chunks (you can peel them of you wish)
¾ cup of Greek yogurt (regular yogurt works just as well)
¾ cup of whipping cream
1-2 tablespoons of sugar
½ teaspoon of vanilla
Pour all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth. Pour into popsicle molds and freeze overnight.
Chocolate Covered Strawberry Pops
Ingredients:
2-3 cups of fresh strawberries (I used frozen)
½ cup of cold water
1 tablespoon of sugar (or more to taste)
1 bottle of magic shell
Pour the strawberries, water, and sugar into a blender and blend until smooth. Pour into popsicle molds and freeze overnight.
Dip your pops into the magic shell. Allow time for the magic shell to harden. Enjoy!
Of course, if you own popsicle molds, use them! I don’t own molds so I made my own with small cups, tin foil, and popsicle sticks.
To use this method, just pour your popsicle mixture into the cups, and top with tin foil.
Cut a small slit into each of the tin foil tops and insert a popsicle stick.
Place your cups on a cookie sheet, and slide them into the freezer. Allow popsicles to freeze overnight.
To remove your pops from the cups, just run them under hot water for a few seconds and slide the cup off.
Homemade popsicles are not only the perfect way to cool off on a hot day, they are delicious and chock full of fresh summer ingredients! Keep these quick and easy recipes close by so you can whip some up anytime to battle the dog days of summer.
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These look SO yummy! I am totally going to try the strawberry ones today (sans chocolate). And maybe the peaches n cream one too… the peaches on our tree are ripe right now.
The peaches and cream ones are my faves!
Making me consider trying watermelon pops again. I don’t think I added enough sugar last time. 😀
Yes! Please try them again, and the watermelon pops should have adequate sugar to get the taste just right. Just take a taste and add a little more if you need it!
They look really tempting and perfect for hot summer days! WIll definitely try the watermelon popsicle… 🙂
The watermelon ones were my kids favorites!
These look great! My kids love homemade popsicles so I’ll have to try these soon.
Thanks! They are so simple to make, bring your kids into the kitchen to help! They will love them that much more!
I made some popsicles last night and it turns out my children love them! Thank you for sharing these great recipes!!!
My kids love them too, and I love them because I can make them with fresh, wholesome ingredients… instead of colored sugar water!
OMG – I am going to try them all!
YES! Let me know how you like them, and which flavor is your favorite!
I think I might possibly want to make them all! But really, especially the watermelon ones. Yum!
My boys loved the watermelon ones the best!
Hi Emily,
I’m just curious – how many popsicles does each recipe make? I was going to figure out WW points and was just wondering 🙂
Thanks VM!
Stefanie
Ps. They look WONDERFUL!!
Hi Stefanie, so sorry it took me this long to get to your question! Each recipe made about 6, but that number would depend solely on your popsicle mold or cup size. My cups were about the size of a Dixie cup. I really hope that helps!
I love your recipe posts, I just pinned several.
Thank you! I love cooking and especially eating! Can you tell?? 🙂
Holy delicious, Batman, those look AMAZING.
Thanks Emilie!!
These are great, you should stick them up on Pinterest. The strange thing is it’s not actually been very sunny here (England) so we’ve not really gotten into summer mode yet. It’s more mittens, scarves and umbrellas. Hopefully I’ll be able to eat these in warm weather soon!
Alex, I just ran into a family from Scotland this weekend and they said the same thing. It was funny because we were in St. George Utah at the time and the temp was over 115… so they were melting! Hope you warm up enough to eat popsicles soon, as eating a popsicle with mittens does not sound like a very fun task! Thinking and sending warm thoughts your way!
Wow, those look so awesome, especially the chocolate-dipped strawberry ones! Would be a fun activity to do with kids too!
These popsicles would be great with kids! No cooking required and fun with blending flavors!
Watermelon and mint has be curious! I can’t wait to try.
Blessings~
Alethea
My boys loved the watermelon and mint combo! I hope you do too!