Thursday, September 2, 2010

Homemade Popcicles and Flavored Yogurt - Yummy!!

We had playgroup at my friend Sherri's house one day and she brought out some cute little homemade popcicles for the kiddos to eat.  She had just put some yogurt (various flavors) into ice cube trays to freeze with toothpicks for handles.  Then a few weeks later, I was at my friend Dana's house and she brought out some homemade popcicles made with lemonade in popcicle molds.  Also very tasty and cute!  By then the inspiration had hit: I HAD to make some popcicles.  I started with some strawberries I found on sale:
I chopped their green hats off and put them in the food processor:
When my super awesome food processor has done its work, it looks like this:
Now, at this point it tastes a little tart, so I added some agave nectar to sweeten it up.  We were out of honey (used in the applesauce) and I try my best to add natural sweeteners instead of sugar.  Not that I'm totally against sugar.  It's just that when I have the choice between refined sugar and something natural, I will most likely choose the natural route.  Because my 2 year old doesn't need any more sugar than he already gets!  Then I poured the mixture into an ice cube tray:
I cut up some straws into thirds and stuck them in the popcicles to freeze for the handles.  Someday I'd like to get some popcicle molds, but this works well for now.  My son loves them!  I'd also like to try some other popcicle flavors such as:
  • lemonade
  • apple juice (or other juices)
  • applesauce
  • pureed cantaloupe
  • pureed frozen grapes (or maybe not frozen, I'll see how that works)
  • chocolate flavored something - maybe yogurt?
Any other ideas??  I'd love to hear some!

I took some of the rest of the strawberry puree and mixed it with plain yogurt.  That was also tart and needed some agave nectar to sweeten it up.  My son has this obsession with Dannon-ino yogurt and would eat the entire package if I let him, so I saved the cartons and put the yogurt in them.  The first time I presented one to him, he was extremely tired, so he saw right through it and freaked out.  But I'll try again when he's in a more pleasant mood :)

1 comment:

  1. My mom always used to put pudding into molds...turns them into fudge pops (or whatever other flavor pudding you make). YUMMY!

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