Fruit

Ice lollies are one of my all-time favorite summer treats and making your own is a brilliant way to use up fruit and juices that may otherwise go to waste. It is an activity that can be fun for kids to take part in and a fab way to get more fruit into your day to day diet too.

Equipment

Ice lolly molds. You can buy these from many supermarkets now, Asda and Tesco both stock them instore, Amazon has many different ones available too. I bought mine from my local Lidl store.
Blender or liquidizer.
Fork, spoon.
Measuring jug.
Freezer.

Ingredients

Soft fruits such as peaches, nectarines, berries, melon, mango, kiwi, banana…
Alternatively, you could use frozen smoothie mix.
Fruit juice such as orange or apple, or lemonade.

Method

Work out the capacity of the molds by filling with water and then emptying into a measuring jug. Mine hold around 250mls of liquid.
Clean and prepare the fruit, or if using frozen smoothie mix, remove from the freezer for around 20 mins to soften before using.
You can choose to either use the fruits in small chunks or blend with a little bit of juice or lemonade.
If using chunks of fruit, add to the molds and fill with your choice of liquid before placing the sticks into the mold.
If using liquidized fruits, carefully spoon the mixture into the molds and place the sticks in.
Place in the freezer for a few hours to solidify.
When removing, it may be easier to run the molds under a hot tap to ease the lollies out.
Sit back and enjoy your cooling creations.

In the picture, above, I used raspberries and lemonade for the clear lollies, and frozen smoothie mix and orange juice for the orange lolly.

Ideas to try…