Our summer has been about adventures at home and locally. Swimming at friends’ or family’s homes, having (almost nightly) water balloon fights/competitions, playing (video) games at home and Dave and Buster’s – it has been a blast so far!
On one of the really hot, record busting, days last week, I decided I was going to try my hand at making popsicles with and for the kids. Right. Good fun. Check. Low Cal (mostly). Check. Ready, set, go!
The first batch (the orange ones above) tasted like mango smoothies. Not terrible, but really not so popsicle-y. My sons ate it out of duty (sigh). We can’t have that. I figured my problem was probably not following a recipe. Yep. Well, my grandmother trained me to be creative in the kitchen. This is a good thing when improvising with something you actually KNOW how to make. This is not quite a good thing when you have never made it before. So, round two I didn’t really use a true recipe and just poured root beer (my favorite popsicle flavor as a child) into the molds and froze them. The taste– excellent! The presentation, not so much. You kinda have to wait for the root beer to go flat.
What did I learn? Use a recipe! So round three (pictured on right above): Fudge popsicles from a recipe by Live Simply . Excellent smooth results. Presentation: Good. Flavor: Intense and very popsicle-y. Success! Next we plan to try a Dole Whip imitation popsicle recipe. Can’t wait!
Bridget Kelley-Lossada 
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