Fruit ice - salvation from the summer heat

2025 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2025-01-23 12:50

How to save yourself from the summer heat, stuffiness and thirst? There is a simple solution: make popsicles. The recipe for this cold treat is so simple that even a kid can handle it, and everyone will like this ice cream. In addition, by adding various fruits and berries to it, you can get a variety of delicious desserts full of various vitamins.

Orange Strawberry Popsicles

A great treat for kids and adults that's easy to make at home. The sweetness of strawberries and citrus notes of orange will give you freshness, coolness and a boost of useful vitamins in summertime.

Ingredients:

• a glass of strawberries;
• two glasses of orange juice;
• a cup of vanilla yogurt;
• two tablespoons of granulated sugar.

Cooking

Blend orange juice, yogurt and washed and dried strawberries in a blender. By the way, a few berries can be cut into small pieces and added to the resulting puree, then fruit icewith slices of fresh strawberries. Spread the prepared mixture into molds, install wooden sticks and put in the freezer for at least three to four hours.

Blueberry Yogurt Popsicles

Beautiful and he althy two-tone dessert will pleasantly surprise and delight the whole family. Both frozen and fresh berries are suitable for making this delicacy, and yogurt will add tenderness to the finished delicacy.

Ingredients:

• 80 grams of blueberries;
• 50 grams of blueberry yogurt (1.5-2% fat);
• 150 grams plain yoghurt (1.5-2% fat);
• a quarter teaspoon of vanilla sugar;
• half a glass of water;
• a teaspoon of granulated sugar.

Cooking

To prepare the lilac layer, mix blueberries, blueberry yogurt and a quarter cup of water with a blender. For the white layer - yogurt without filler, granulated sugar, vanilla sugar and the remaining water. Fill the ice cream containers about halfway with the prepared mixture (first pour the lilac layer into some of the cups, white into the rest). Place the molds in the freezer for half an hour. Take out the cups, insert ice cream sticks into the frozen yogurt and pour over with a mixture of a different color. Put it back in the freezer and wait 3-4 hours. After this time, your favorite treat is ready!

Helpful tips

Whichever popsicle recipe you choose, there are a few commontips that will work with any of them:

• without special containers for ice cream, you can use yogurt cups, small plastic cups and even molds for freezing ice by inserting toothpicks into them (it is very convenient to add such cubes to tea or just to water to cool and give taste and aroma);
• just leaving the prepared puree in the freezer in the molds, you get a fruit icicle. If the contents are periodically stirred during the freezing process, then there will be a fruit sorbet;
• to easily remove the prepared dessert from the mold, you need to hold it under running cold water for 30 seconds;
• to make softer popsicles, add one of the stabilizers - starch or gelatin.