How To Make Homemade Popsicles

Do you know how easy it is to make your own popsicles for your family?

You can make your own freshly made popsicles for pennies on the dollar compared to all of those pricey store brand popsicles. A positive benefit of making your own homemade popsicles is that you control the ingredients that go into them.

The following recipes take less than 10 minutes to prepare and within a few hours, you will have some great tasting, freshly made popsicles for you and your family.

Here is what you need to get started:

1. mixer or blender
2. large bowl
3. mixing spoon
4. funnel or ladel
5. popsicle molds (Tupperware makes Ice Tupps Popsicle Molds but other companies also make them).

Your popsicle mold set should include: a tray, plastic popsicle molds, popsicle sticks and seals. If you invest in a good quality set of popsicle molds, they should be dishwasher safe, making clean up a snap.

Now let's get started with some recipes.

Kids Polar Popsicles

4 cups strawberries
1/3 cup Tropical Punch flavored sugar-sweetened soft drink mix

Rinse strawberries and remove stems. Place strawberries and flavored soft-drink mix into a blender container, cover and blend on low speed for 1 1/2 minutes or until smooth. Pour mixture into your popsicle molds and insert the sticks and freeze for 3 hours.

Homemade Fudgesicles

1 4 oz. pkg. instant chocolate pudding
2 cups milk
1/4 cup sugar
1 cup canned evaporated milk

Combine the pudding and 2 cups milk. Beat for 2 minutes. Stir in sugar and canned milk. Pour in to popsicle molds. Freeze.

Frozen Pear Popsicles

1 (16 oz.) can pear halves, drained
1 (8 oz.) plain yogurt
3 tbsp. honey
1/2 tbsp. lemon juice
Few drops almond extract

In blender container combine pears, yogurt, honey, lemon juice and almond extract. Cover and blend until smooth. Pour mixture into the Ice Tupps set to make popcicles. Freeze 4 to 6 hours.

Cookies 'N Cream Frozen Popsicles

1 cup Cool Whip
12 Oreo Cookies - crushed
1/2 cup milk
1 4-serving pack of Vanilla Instant Pudding

Mix the above ingredients together and pour into your Ice Tupps set to make popsicles. Freeze for 4-5 hours before serving.

Banana Chocolate Pudding Pops

1 cup milk
1 box instant chocolate pudding mix
2 Bananas

In a blender combine the milk and box of Instant chocolate pudding mix. Blend until smooth. Unpeel banana's and add them to the blender and puree until all of the mixture is mixed smooth. Pour into popsicle molds and insert sticks and freeze for 6 hours before serving.

Orange Popsicles

1 box orange gelatin
1 pkt. orange flavored soft-drink mix
1 cup boiling water
1 cup orange juice

Dissolve the orange soft drink mix and gelatin in boiling water. Add the orange juice. Stir until all ingredients are dissolved and mixed. Pour mixture into the Ice Tupps and freeze for 4 hours.