Raise your hand if you made your own popsicles as a kid. I sure did. If it was liquid, it went into a paper Dixie® cup and was stuck in the freezer – fruit juice from concentrate, root beer, Kool-Aid®. You get the idea...frozen sugar.
Older, perhaps wiser, and definitely more health conscious, I decided to revisit a favorite summertime treat and make my own ice pops from fresh fruit.
Older, perhaps wiser, and definitely more health conscious, I decided to revisit a favorite summertime treat and make my own ice pops from fresh fruit.
Watermelon-Lime Pops
The key here is using very ripe fruit, although I'm sure frozen fruit would work equally as well. What I discovered though, is that fruit loses some of its sweetness after freezing, so if you still have the sweet tooth you did as a child, you might want to throw in a sweetener like agave nectar or raw honey.
Blueberry-Blackberry Ice Pop
All you do is puree your fruit in the blender or food processor – try melons, berries, mangos, grapes, anything! Remember to first remove any pits and seeds. Add some coarsely chopped fruit to the puree if you like, pour into popsicle molds
, and freeze them. If you don't have popsicle molds, pour into 3-ounce Dixie® cups, cover the cups with plastic wrap (holds the stick in place), poke a wooden popsicle stick
through, and freeze. 
Peach-Honey Popsicle
Voilà! Frozen treats in about four hours.
Go on, give it a try. You're never too old to have a happy (healthy) childhood!