Tips and Tricks in Making Ice Pops

Homemade Popsicle is a great way to induce fruits into your children’s diet.  It comes with dozens of advantages such as nutritional content, natural flavors, and fresh ingredients.  Unlike popsicles bought in stores, making your own popsicles give you the chance to combine flavors that you like such as fruits, yogurt, and milk.  It can be a good bonding experience with your kids too, ask them of their flavors and let them make their own popsicles.  Aside from that, you are reducing eco-waste since Popsicle molds are reusable.

If you have trouble in making your homemade popsicles, you’ll need to learn about the tips and tricks on how to mold so that your popsicle won’t be like rock pops,  also proper mixing and the right combination of ingredients.  Check the tricks and tips below and get yourself started. 

1.     Use reusable Popsicle molds -   you can use paper Dixie cup, and other raw materials however these are not eco-friendly and it will take years for these to decompose. If you want to save mother earth you better use reusable instant popsicle makerr.   On the other side, reusable molds are a good investment since it is economical.   

1.     Choose fresh and organic ingredients- We all knew that homemade popsicles are good for kids since it has fewer sweeteners, no artificial colors, and harmful chemicals.    But let’s don’t forget that homemade popsicles are only healthy depending on how you make them. It is important that you pick nothing but the fresh and organic ingredients only.  Bear in mind, fresh and organic and rest assured that you are serving nutritious delights to your family. 

1.      The right amount of sweeteners – this probably the common issue newbies encountered when making popsicles.  Oftentimes, they think that it is easy as pouring orange juice into a Popsicle maker and freezing away.   Popsicle making comes with proper mixing of the right amount of ingredients.   Remember, that you are not freezing plain liquids; you have your children to impress so make sure it taste good. 

Be Artistic and Write your efforts – Boring Popsicles are well, boring!  It always pays to be creative when making ice pops.  You can do many things such as adding berries into the molds to make it look colorful.  You can also experiment on the flavors such as mixing apple with mango; you can use your aesthetic taste for optimal ice pop enjoyment at your house.  It is big encouragement to try odd flavors such spinach, carrots, and fruit juices in making layered popsicles. You can add granola, chopped nuts, fresh fruits, and grated coconut to add nutritional texture on