10 Easy Popsicle Idea Which You Can Create At Home With Ease

10 Easy Popsicle Idea Which You Can Create At Home With Ease

As the hot summer is approaching, who doesn’t like to enjoy a stick of popsicle at home to beat off this heat and boost up your mood after a long tiring day? Here are some 10 ideas of making your favorites popsicles all by yourself without causing a hole in your wallet.

1. Mango Sticky Rice – who doesn’t love Thai mango sticky rice, but do you know that you can actually turn it into desserts. With the mango and chewy texture of the sticky rice, it will be one chewy sweetness popsicles.

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Ingredients:

• ¾ cup of mangos (diced, preferably ripe for extra sweetness)
• 13 oz. of coconut milk
• 1 cup of sticky rice or ½ cup of sushi rice (any starchy rice should work)
• ¼ tsp. of salt
• Heavy cream (can be substituted with milk and butter)
• Roasted or fried mung beans (optional)
• Black and white sesame (optional)

Steps:

1. Mix and stir all the ingredients except the mangos in a saucepan for 20 minutes. Gradually go from medium to medium-low while stirring.
2. Once the rice softens and the ingredients mixed well, let cool for 15 minutes before stirring with mango.
3. Pour mixture into ¾ of each mold.
4. Freeze and wait.

Recipe adapted from NYT Cooking and Steve’s Kitchen

 

2. Bubble Milk Tea Popsicle – as the bubble tea are still going frenzy around the whole island-wide, it will certainly be a great idea to make your own BBT popsicle.

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Ingredients:

• 6 Chinese black tea bags
• ½ tapioca pearls
• 1 cup of condensed milk
• 2 oz. of Chinese brown sugar or palm sugar

Steps for making milk tea:

1. In a saucepan, brew the tea bags in medium-high heat for 5-10 minutes* and let cool for 10 minutes.
2. Then, remove the tea bags and add condensed milk. Stir them together.

Steps for tapioca pearls**:

1.  In a separate pot, boil the tapioca pearls for 15-20 minutes until soft but chewy.
2. Put the pan with pearls aside from heat and let sit for 15 minutes.
3. Rinse pearls with cold water in a strainer and place them aside.
4. Next, add the brown sugar to boiling water and stir to medium-low heat to make syrup.
5. Stir the syrup with the tapioca pearls and let cool for 15 minutes.

Steps for popsicle:

1. Add a few tapioca pearls from earlier inside each mold.
   1. The remaining pearls go at the top of the milk tea.
2. Pour mixture into ¾ of each mold.
3. Freeze and wait.

Recipe adapted from Asian Inspirations, Chowhound, and Instructables.

3. Durian Potong – these popsicle has existed since the ’80s which are the easiest way to create a popsicle as the steps are very easy.

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Ingredients:

• 200g of durian flesh
• 250ml of coconut milk
• 100ml of milk
• 4 tbsp. of sugar (optional)

Steps:

1. Cook and stir the ingredients in low-heat until you get a white, creamy mixture.
2. Pour mixture into ¾ of each mold.
3. Freeze and wait.

Recipe adapted from JewelPie

 

4. Thai Milk Tea Popsicle (Cha Yen) – the first thing when we usually land on the continent of Thailand, the hunts for a cup of cold freezing sweetness overload Cha-Yen is for sure. So why not make your own when the border is still closed at the moment.

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Ingredients:

• 8 Ceylon or black tea teabags
• ½ of condensed milk
• 14 oz. of coconut milk
• 2-star anise pods (optional)

Steps for Thai iced tea (cha yen):

1. Simmer the tea bags and condensed milk in boiled water until mixed well
   1. While boiling the water, crush and add the anise pods (optional)
2. Remove bags and then mix with coconut milk
3.  Refrigerate the mixture for an hour before stirring again

Steps for popsicle:

1. Pour mixture into ¾ of each mold.
2. Freeze and wait.

Recipe adapted from Oh My Veggies, Naive Cook Cooks, Food.com, and Eating Thai Food

5. Kids Cereal and Milk Popsicle – we all know that kids love their cereal due to it is healthy and colorful in contents, but do you know you can actually make it into a popsicle.

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Ingredients:

• 2 cups of cereal of your choice
• 3 cups of milk
• ¾ cups of sugar

Steps:

1. Mix and stir the milk and sugar in a medium heat saucepan.
2. Then, add the cereal and let sit for several minutes before blending.
3. Pour mixture into ¾ of each mold.
4. Freeze and wait.

Recipe adapted from A Spicy Perspective

 

6. Peanut Butter (banana) popsicle – a lot of people wonder that it might be surprising that banana and peanut butter work surprisingly well together, there is a great idea for a popsicle which will certainly turn out to be a sweet and nutty flavor.

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Ingredients:

• 2-3 bananas (preferably ripe)
• 3 tbsp. of peanut butter
• ½ cup of chocolate chips (optional)
• 1 tbsp. of chopped mixed nuts (optional)

Steps:

1. Mix the banana and peanut butter in a blender until smooth
2. Pour mixture into ¾ of each mold.
3. Freeze and wait.

Recipe adapted from @myfussyeater

 

7. Thai Pink Milk (Nom Yen) – when you can make a popsicle out from Cha-Yen, why not Nom-Yen too, when these taste of strawberry with milk will burst out with its strong fragrant smells.

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Ingredients:

• ¼ cup of Hale’s Blue Boy (sala syrup) – can be substituted with strawberry or raspberry syrup
• 2 cups of milk
• ¼ cup of evaporated milk
• 1-2 tbsp. of condensed milk (optional)

Steps for pink milk:

1. Mix all ingredients together and stir.
   1. Add syrup or condensed milk if you need it sweeter.

Steps for popsicle:

1. Pour mixture into ¾ of each mold.
2. Freeze and wait.

Recipe adapted from Cooking With Nart

 

8. Red Lime Soda (Dang Manao) – this Dang Manao soda is actually a Thailand soda with combination of sala syrup and lime which are great to rejuvenate back our body after a hot day. This refreshing mixture of drinks can actually be yet another great idea of popsicles.

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Ingredients:

• ½ tbsp. of Hale’s Blue Boy (sala syrup)
• 1 cup of soda water
• 1 lime or 2 tbsp. of lime juice

Steps to make dang manao:

1. Mix the soda and syrup together
2. Add lime or before stirring again

Steps to make the popsicle:

1. Pour mixture into ¾ of each mold.
2. Freeze and wait.

Recipe adapted from cookpad and Openrice

 

9. Gin & Tonic – this simple cocktail with their strong lime smell are actually the cousin of lemonade which is an adult version. It will certainly a great idea for party among friends on a Friday night gathering.

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Ingredients:

• 1-3 oz. of gin
• 8 oz. of tonic water
• 6-10 thin slices of cucumber
• 6-10 mint leaves (optional)
• ¼ lime juice (optional)
• 6-10 thin slices of lemon or grapefruit (optional garnish)

Steps:

1. Shake the gin, tonic, and optional lime juice together.
2. Wedge cucumber slices and mint leaves into molds before pouring the mixture into ¾ of each mold.
3. Freeze and wait.

Recipe adapted from Port and Fin and BBC Good Food

 

10. Gummi Bears with Sprites or 7Up – this will indeed be a great popsicle with something colorful and chewy while you slowly enjoying a stick of freezing popsicle.

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Ingredients:

• 5 oz. of gummy bears
• 1-2 cans of Sprite (or ginger ale)
• ¼ cup of vodka

Steps:

1. Put gummy bears inside molds.
2. Fill about ¾ of each mold with the soft drink.
3. Freeze and wait.

Steps for alcoholic version:

1. Soak gummy bears in vodka for 1-3 days

Recipe adapted from Keyingredient and  A Spicy Perspective