Ice Lolly Ideas

HOLsale

thanks for the tips on liquorice pops and squash pops, might be helpful for someone else however we won't use them as no one in this house likes liquorice and we don't use anything with sweetners in for health/taste reasons but i'm sure someone else will benefit!

along the same lines as the liquorice pops, i have some crystalised angelica which quite frankly i don't like the taste of but maybe i'll make some of the pops with milk with that for my neighbour who really likes the stuff...

i now know what to do with 10p reduced milk! we got some white chocolate flavoured milk not long ago reduced to 10p, that would have made lovely ice lollies!

KK

I do these for my little girl and she loves them. When she was reluctant to eat fruit I would whizz up tinned fruit (peaches are lovely) and mix with yoghurt or fromage frais and freeze. You can even do striped loolies if you can be bothered by freezing different coloured purees in stages. I bought some brilliant ice lolly moulds from lakeland Plastics - they were about £5 but have used them loads and they have an integral straw in the lid/handle so you can sip up all the melted juice! Any fruit puree is lovely frozen. I use the same principal as smoothies, with bananas, fruit juice/puree, yoghurt (I'm sure plain or value yoghurts would be fine) and maybe some cream. You could mix sprinkles in with them, chocolate chips, or actually slices of strawberry or kiwi look nice too. Dried apricots rehydrated and then pureed and sieved make a lovely ice lolly base. Oh, I've inspired myself to make some again now! Angel Delight lollies are supposed to be lovely (according to my hubby). Just plain fruit juice is nice too.

16011996

for a nice lolly we like homemade lemonade frozen, is very refreshing.

HOLsale

wow! i'm feeling very inspired now! i'm wanting to get dd eating bananas again so this should help and i like the idea of the fromage frais blended in. we also bought some 'angel delight' type stuff from lidl but haven't eaten it yet so i think my first batch will mix that and fruit.

i have purchased a 6 ice lolly tray and a neat little fruit kebab thing for your freezer (lakeland) off ebay (got the lot for 4.50 including postage) but now i'm thinking maybe i should check the poundstore to see if i can find anymore ice lolly trays. i'll also check lakelands site to see how much their lolly trays are, we used to have the type mentioned with the built in straw but they are all lost now, good for a young one, helps keep down the mess!

Anne_Marie_2

Another thought for your ice-lolly trays, as your daughter is only little, little mini ones might be good - ice cube trays, but more the rounded variety rather than the square/rectangular type which might be a bit sharp, or save those little fromage frais pots, if that is feasible. Have a rake round your kitchen for other suitable little pots - something that has just come to my mind, is I have little plastic shot glasses, which would probably be ideal - I think possibly a few adult ice lollies for the bbq if we get a summer this year!
I used to make lollies many years ago, although it was money saving, it was more that I knew what was in them, and as little additives as possible. No further suggestions than what has already been said. Pureed fruit mixed with fromage frais or plain yoghourt used to work well, fruit kebabs, fresh fruit juice. I vaguely remember doing a jelly ice-lolly, but cannot remember the recipe, if I do will post, but maybe others can help here.

misty

Half fill lolly mould with yogurt, put in freezer for half an hour then push in stick. Then top up other half with fresh juice watered down if you want for half and half lolly - they're yum

HOLsale

we were at lakeland today and i had a look at the sippy pop moulds but they wanted £4.99 for them and dh said no. stopped in a bargain shop on the way home and found a slightly smaller version (better size for dd) for only £2.99 so we bought those, i still have my other ones coming from ebay (i knew we'd need another set!) but i also got the fruit kebab freezer today.

i made 2 ice lollies with cran/rasp and orange juice mmmmmmm

i made two with the smoothies we made from strawberries, bananas and greek yogurt, they didn't turn out as nice, i think they needed a touch of sugar.

i'm really looking forward to the frozen fruit kebabs, i've done a strawberry and a piece of banana on each kebab, i'll let you know how they turned out.
tomorrow i'll be making some more ice lollies with angel delight yum!

apple_mint

After reading this thread, I put a couple of bananas in the freezer. Yesterday lunchtime we had sliced frozen banana topped with crumbled homemade flapjack .... yummy

I think this is going to prove to be a popular dessert in our house (healthy and moneysaving too)

megasaver

Some wonderful ideas here .... have inspired me to have another go as my dd won't eat fruit either, but loves ice creams and ice lollies. Last year I bought some ice lolly moulds from Woolworths. I tried using them a few times but they were an absolute disaster! I couldn't get the ice lollies out of the moulds. These moulds had handles that "sat" on top of each lolly (like little covers with a stick in the middle). Even if I waited until the lollies had defrosted a bit and pulled on the handles, the ice lollies remained in the moulds until they turned it slush. A couple of times the handles came out with a bit of ice lolly stuck to it. Arghhhh! What was I doing wrong? Didn't have this lovely web site's members to ask advice, so the moulds were put away. Please advice if you can as I would love to avoid buying the shop bought ones.

thanks

Allexie

catznine wrote:

We used to do frozen bananas for the kids that we dipped into yogurt and then poured over some chocolate sprinkles. A friend of mine used to make lollies from the juice left over from cooking rhubarb (very pretty pink lollies).

If you overcook rhubarb til its mushy that's quite nice frozen too;)