Popsicles!

Hot days of summer bring the necessity to have a cool treat! This is a list of all sorts of fun ideas that you can MAKE, at home, for less than store bought treats! The added bonus is that they are healthier too! There should be enough ideas here so you could make a different kind every week of your summer vacation and see which become your family's favorites.
Enjoy!

Ice Tup Cicles
2 pkgs. Kool-aid, any flavor
1 pkg. Jello, to match Kool-aid
1 ¼ cup sugar
Mix dry ingredients thoroughly and store in a Modular Mates Container or ShelfSmart Container. Use 6 Tbsp. of the above dry ingredients to ¾ cup hot water and ¾ cup cold water or fruit juice. Fills one set of Ice Tups.

Tupsicles
1 pkg. Jello
1 Pkg. Kool-aid
1 cup sugar
2 cups hot water
Mix above ingredients well. Add 2 cups cold water. Stir and pour into Ice Tups and freeze

Jello-Cicles
1 pkg. Jello
1 cup hot water
Mix well and then add:
1 ½ cups cold water
Stir and pour into Ice Tups. Freeze. Makes 12.

Dripless Popsicles
1 pkg. fruit flavored jello
1 pkg. Kool-aid
1/2 C sugar
2/3 cups hot water
2 cups cold water
In Mix-N-Stor Plus Pitcher, mix until dissolved; jello, Kool-aid, sugar and hot water. Stir well. Then add cold water. Pour into Ice Tups and freeze. Will not drip! Makes 20 Ice Tups

Frozen Fruit
1 reg. Can of fruit cocktail, 15 oz.
Divide fruit evenly into 6 Ice Tups molds. Divide the juice and Freeze. Makes 6
Variation: Mashed Strawberries and bananas make great “Tupper Freezies”

Punch & Cream
1 cup Hawaiian punch
1 cup ice cream
Mix these two, and pour into Ice Tups and freeze.

Lemon-Cicles
1 pkg. lemon instant pudding
1½ cups water
Mix as directed on pudding package. Pour into Ice Tups. Freeze. Makes 12

Butterscotch-Cicles
1 pkg. butterscotch instant pudding mix
1 cup root beer
1½ cups water
Mix as directed on the pudding package and pour into Ice Tups. Freeze. Makes 12

Fudge-Cicles #1
1 pkg. instant chocolate pudding
2 ½ cups milk
Mix as directed on pudding package. Pour into Ice Tups and freeze. Makes 12

Fudge-Cicles #2
1 pkg. instant chocolate pudding
½ cup sugar
½ cup cream
2 cup milk
Mix as directed on package. Pour into Ice Tups. Freeze. Makes 12

Snow Sticks
¼ cup pure liquid honey
1 (8 oz.) pkg. cream cheese, softened
1 (15 oz.) pkg. frozen strawberries, raspberries, or blueberries, thawed
½ pint heavy cream whipped
3 cups mini marshmallows
Gradually add honey to cream cheese and blend well. Stir in undrained fruit. Fold in whipped cream and marshmallows. Spoon into Ice Tups. Will fill 5 sets of Ice Tups

Yogurtsicles
1 cup fruit juice
½ cup plain yogurt
Optional: dash of honey or vanilla
Mix above ingredients together. Pour into 6 Ice Tups and freeze until solid.

Yogurt Tupsicles
1 (16 oz.) container skim milk
1 (6 oz.) container yogurt
1 cup fruit; strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, 2-3 mashed bananas, canned peaches or pineapple
Mix ingredients in Mix-N-Stor Plus Pitcher. Pour into Ice Tups and Freeze.

Moosicles
1 cup fruit juice
½ cup milk
Mix milk and juice together. Fills 6 Ice Tups. Freeze until solid.

Very Berry Cicles
1 pint fresh berries
¾ cup sugar or honey
¾ cup water
¼ cup orange or lemon juice
Puree fruit in blender. Heat water and sugar together to a clear syrup and pour into blender. Mix
completely. Pour into Ice Tups and freeze until solid.

Creamy Orange Pops
1 can (6 oz.) unsweetened frozen pineapple/orange juice concentrate, partially thawed
1 cup milk or evaporated milk
1 cup plain yogurt
Mix with a hand or electric mixer or with the Quick Shake and pour into Ice Tups.

Double Orange Pops
1 pkg. (3 oz.) Orange jello
½ cup sugar
2 cups boiling water
2 cups Orange juice
Dissolve gelatin and sugar in boiling water. Add orange juice, pour into Ice Tups and freeze

Fruit Pops
½ cup water
2 slices nectarines or peaches, unpeeled
1 can (6 oz.) pineapple/orange juice concentrate, undiluted.
Mix in blender and pour into Ice Tups

Watermelonsicles
Puree pitted watermelon cubes in blender. Pour into Ice Tups and freeze until solid.

Big Ice Pops
Add a little fresh lemon to water for tanginess and freeze in Ice Tups. Cool and refreshing and drips
are water!

Even Easier Juicesicles
Fill Ice Tups with canned or reconstituted frozen unsweetened fruit juice such as apple, grape or
orange juice and freeze. Don’t use fruit drinks as these are high in sugar and don’t contain the nutrients found in fruit juice. To limit the expense of juices, dilute slightly by adding more water.

Economy Treat
Try freezing fruit juices that collect when cutting fresh watermelon, cantaloupe, pineapple or berries or the juice from canned fruit packed in water or juice.

[B]And now for some FUN IDEAS:[/B]

STRIPED POPS
Layer popsicles with different colored or flavored layers of pudding , yogurt, or jello.

PARFAIT POPS
Same as striped, but layer with whipped topping in between layers. Yummy!

PARTY POPS
Add sprinkles, chocolate chips, marshmallows, nuts or coconut to your
popsicles. You can also make them wild colors with food coloring.

ROCKY ROAD POPS
1 package of chocolate pudding
1/2 cup marshmallows
1/4 cup peanuts
Mix, fill molds and freeze.

PINA COLADAS
Whirl pineapple juice, coconut and banana in a blender, then fill molds and
freeze. (You can also use the Pina Colada fruit shake recipe.

DREAMSICLES
Mix 1-2 tsp. Tang and 1/2 tsp vanilla extract with milk. You can adjust to
Your taste. Fill molds and freeze.

FIZZY LIFTING POPS
Mix club soda and gelatin to make bubbly Jell-O, then freeze in molds.

ICE CREAM POPS
1/2 cup milk
2 tbsp honey
2 tsp veggie oil
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup diced fruit
1 cup whipping cream
Put all into blender for 2 min (until smooth).
Pour mixture into tups. Freeze.

YOGURT JAM POPS
2- 8oz containers plain
yogurt
6 tbsp jam or preserves, in the flavor of your choice. Mix them both together
and freeze inside of tups.

ORANGE TUPS
1 package orange jello
1 package orange Kool-aid
1 cup boiling water
1 cup cold orange juice
Dissolve jello and kool-aid in boiling water.
Add juice. Pour into tups and freeze

Comments

  1. awesome...going to have try some. what does the jello do in the mixture. i have done just straight kool aid. does it keep the kool aid from settling on the tips

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  2. It helps it not melt as fast :)
    That is why they are called "dripless"
    :)
    I'm not sure why it works

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  3. ahh going to have to try that. the kids love popsicles and right now we just do kool aid in the popsicle makers.

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