How to make popsicles at home. TOP 6 best recipes with photos. Secrets and tips for making goodies. Video recipes.
Many people like to feast on bright and aromatic popsicles in the summer heat. However, not many parents approve of this, fearing that the treat contains a large amount of sugar. Also in the cold dessert are harmful substances such as flavors, thickeners, dyes, taste stabilizers, etc. All these chemical industrial additives will not be good for either a child or an adult. Therefore, it is better to make popsicles yourself in your kitchen. Its basis is only natural products. And if you do everything exactly with the recipe, the result will be no less tasty than the purchased counterpart.
Popsicles - tips and tricks
- To make ice cream, choose natural and fresh cream, milk, high-quality chocolate, ripe, not spoiled fruits.
- The fatter the cream, the softer the ice cream. With skimmed foods, ice cream will be watery, fine crystalline, and crunchy like sand on your teeth.
- Homemade sundae with a velvety and soft texture will only work when using heavy cream.
- Fruits and berries can be taken fresh or thawed.
- Ice cream made at home will be tastier if sugar is replaced with powdered sugar.
- Fruit mass can be filled with additional products such as nuts, candied fruits, coconut flakes, dried fruits, etc.
- If the treat is being prepared for adults, add alcohol, notes of brandy, rum or liqueur will add spice.
- Chill dishes and food well before cooking.
- An ice cream maker will help you make homemade ice cream. In its absence, you can do with special molds, chopsticks and a good freezer. Or use silicone molds for muffins or ice, delicacies can be easily removed from them.
- To prevent the ice cream from breaking, dip it in warm water for a few seconds before removing it from the mold.
- Stir the delicacy thoroughly several times in the freezer until it freezes completely.
- Ice cream will remain soft if stored in a shallow container, covered with plastic wrap.
See also how to make banana ice cream with coconut and cognac.
Popsicles with yoghurt
Popsicles with yoghurt are a delicious dessert that adults and children will love. You can take any berries to taste as a basis, and not only yogurt, but also whipped cream will give a delicate milky taste.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 298 kcal.
- Servings - 800 g
- Cooking time - 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- Strawberry - 200 g
- Natural yogurt - 300 g
- Blueberries - 200 g
- Vanillin - 0.5 tsp
- Sugar - 0.25 tbsp.
Making yoghurt popsicles:
- Wash the strawberries, dry with a paper towel and remove the stalks.
- Combine strawberries with blueberries and sugar.
- Beat the berries with a blender until smooth.
- Combine yogurt with vanilla and a mixer, beat until light and fluffy.
- Combine yogurt with fruit paste and stir.
- Send popsicles with yogurt to the refrigerator until completely freezing, while whisking it every half hour with a mixer.
Mojito popsicles
Mojito ice cream is for adults only. contains an alcoholic beverage. Although it can be prepared for children, but then exclude alcohol from the recipe.
Ingredients:
- Water - 1 tbsp.
- Sugar - 3/4 tbsp.
- Mint - 20 leaves
- Sprite - 1, 5 tbsp.
- Lime - 2 pcs.
- White rum - 1 tbsp
Making Mojito Popsicles:
- For the sugar syrup, add water to a saucepan, add sugar and mint. Boil, boil for 2 minutes and cool to room temperature. Then strain through a fine sieve.
- Pour the sprite into another bowl, squeeze out the lime juice and add the rum. Then pour in the cooled sugar syrup and mix well.
- Pour the mass into molds and send to solidify in the freezer.
Watermelon ice cream
The recipe uses watermelon as a basis. But it can be replaced with the juice of any other juicy fruit or berries.
Ingredients:
- Schweppes - 0.5 tbsp.
- Honey - 3 tablespoons
- Lime - 1 pc.
- Watermelon - 300 g
Making watermelon ice cream:
- Pour Schweppes into a glass and beat with a spoon to release the gas.
- Add honey and lime juice to Schwebs. If the honey is thick, melt it in a water bath to a liquid consistency and cool.
- Stir the food thoroughly.
- Wash the watermelon, peel, remove the seeds and chop the pulp with a blender.
- Combine the watermelon mass with the soda and whisk again.
- Pour the mass into molds and send to the freezer to harden.
Ice Cream Smoothie
Dessert will satisfy both hunger and thirst at the same time. It is especially well suited on a hot day to enjoy not only tasty, but also cool, but also healthy, which is twice as pleasant.
Ingredients:
- Berries (cranberries, blueberries, raspberries, pitted cherries) - 2 tbsp.
- Banana - 1 pc.
- Natural yogurt - 1 tbsp.
- Condensed milk - 3-4 tablespoons
Making Ice Cream Smoothie:
- Peel the banana.
- Combine the berries with a banana and a blender and punch until smooth.
- Combine yogurt with condensed milk and beat with a mixer until fluffy.
- Add yogurt to fruit puree and stir.
- Pour the mixture into containers and place in the freezer to freeze.
Alcoholic popsicles
Alcoholic ice cream is good for a party with friends and just for a small celebration to surprise guests and diversify the evening.
Ingredients:
- Rum - 100 g
- Mint - 20 g
- Sugar - 1/3 tbsp.
- Berries - 200 g
- Lime - 1 pc.
Making alcoholic popsicles:
- Send the berries to a blender and chop until smooth.
- Pour the fruit mass into a bowl and squeeze out the lime juice.
- Add rum to the mass and mix everything.
- Brew mint leaves in a small amount of water (3 tablespoons) so that there is a concentrated broth and add to the total mass.
- Pour the mass into molds and send to the freezer for two hours.
Fruit ice cream according to GOST
Fruit ice cream, or as it was also called fruit and berry ice cream, was extremely popular in the Soviet years. It was prepared from natural juices or puree from fresh berries and fruits, water, sugar and natural stabilizers.
Ingredients:
- Red currant - 300 g
- Water - 230 ml
- Sugar - 100 g
- Corn starch - 10 g
- Freshly squeezed lemon juice - 1 tsp
- Citric acid - on the tip of a knife
Preparation of popsicles according to GOST:
- Wash the red currants, remove from the stalks, place in a colander and pour boiling water over.
- Grind the currants with a blender so that the berries grind well.
- Transfer the puree to a fine sieve and wipe. Weigh the resulting mass 150 g, cover with food foil and send to the refrigerator.
- Combine sugar with water (200 ml) and boil for 1 minute.
- Pour citric acid into the syrup and continue to boil for another 1 minute.
- Dissolve the starch in the remaining 30 ml of water, and pour the resulting mixture into the syrup, stirring constantly.
- When the starch is brewed and the mixture acquires the consistency of liquid jelly, remove the pan from the heat and cool in the refrigerator.
- Mix currant puree and jelly, add lemon juice and mix thoroughly.
- Send the mass to freeze in the freezer.
