Showing posts with label organic ingredients. Show all posts
Showing posts with label organic ingredients. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Grape Refresher Popsicles

Serves 8
This great, refreshing, not-too-sweet popsicle only has two ingredients!

5 min
Total Time
5 min
Ingredients
  1. 2 cups Pure White Grape Juice
  2. 2 cup Seedless Grapes, sliced
Instructions
  1. Cut grapes into halves or quarters depending on what will best fit into your Popsicle molds.
  2. Pop the grapes in the Popsicle molds, fill with juice, and freeze overnight.
  3. Run the molds under warm water to loosen them. Enjoy!
Notes
  1. Ingredient amounts are only estimates because popsicle molds come in all shapes and sizes. Fill up as many molds as you want with equal parts grapes and juice.

Monday, February 2, 2015

Watermelon and Coconut Popsicle

PREP TIME
TOTAL TIME
 
The perfect healthy treat during the hot summer months!
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Recipe type: Dessert, Frozen, Vegan
Serves: 8

INGREDIENTS
  • 2 cups chopped watermelon or 1½ cups pureed watermelon
  • ⅓ cup shredded coconut
  • Fresh mint (optional, but I think it would make this recipe awesome!)

INSTRUCTIONS

  1. Add your chopped watermelon slices to a blender. Puree until smooth. Add the shredded coconut and blend a little longer.
  1. Pour the blended mixture into your popsicle molds. Set in the sticks or handles and pop into the freezer. The popsicles will need at least 4 hours minimum, even longer, before they are fully hardened.
  1. Twist popsicles out of mold. If you are having trouble, run the molds under some warm water until you can loosen the popsicles easily.


Friday, January 23, 2015

Root Beer Float Popsicles

Prep Time: 5 minutes


Yield:

10-2 1/2 ounce popsicles or 25 ounces of popsicle base
Root beer float popsicles allow enjoyment of the quintessential summer favorite in a new, fun form.

Ingredients

  • 12-14 ounces Root Beer
  • 1 1/4 cup Vanilla Bean ice cream, slightly softened

Instructions

  1. Pour a small amount of the root beer into each popsicle mold (equivalent of aproximately 3/4 inch in the mold).
  2. Evenly distribute the ice cream between the popsicle molds in spoonfuls.
  3. Pour root beer into molds in small amounts allowing the foam to die back before pouring more to fill molds to the top.
  4. Cover with lid of popsicle maker. Place an sheet of foil on top of the popsicle mold top and insert sticks (the foil keeps the sticks in place so they don't slip into the mold more than desired or float).
  5. Freeze until fully frozen. To remove popsicles run molds until hot water for a few seconds and remove.

Source: http://boulderlocavore.com/

Thursday, January 8, 2015

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