Easy Healthy Dessert: Berry Blast Popsicles

You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy a Quicksicle Maker and turn out a 100% guilt-free ice cream-like cold, creamy sweet treat in less than 9 minutes. If that doesn’t make you happy then I don’t know what will!

But seriously, the Pampered Chef Quick Pop Popsicle Maker is revolutionizing homespun easy healthy dessert options. What used to take hours now takes less than 9 minutes and, in practically an instant, delicious freezer pops made from your favorite ingredients are ready to be enjoyed. Storing easily in your freezer, the Pampered Chef Quicksicle Maker works like magic and brings endlessly cool possibilities right into your very own kitchen. 

Berry Blast Popsicles Help Create Easy Healthy Dessert Options

Even if you don’t have a Quicksicle Maker, you can still make super healthy and super tasty frozen popsicles, you just won’t have instant gratification (and you won’t be able to make the cool two-toned flavored pops, like the ones in the photo above.) Here are a few guidelines for making cool, creamy popsicles:

• Ditch the dairy. If I want a creamy Popsicle I use a plant-based “milk” or “cream” instead of cow’s milk or yogurt. Coconut milk, hemp milk (either homemade or from Pacific Naturals), or a mild-flavored nut milk such as macadamia nut or cashew nut milk. Note: nut milks can be made using a high-speed blender.

• Experiment with different types of fruit! Certain fruits such as mango, peach and banana take on an ice cream-like creamy consistency when frozen.

• Try adding superfood boosters! A bit of raw cacao nibs, gogi berries or gogi powder, chia seeds, acai powder, or pomegranate powder,  make deliciously nutritious popsicle add-ins.

• If you have a high-speed blender, then try sweetening with dates or prunes instead of added sugar or syrups. Dates in particular add considerable sweetness when mixed with liquid. Note: the recipe below for Berry Blast Popsicles is sweetened only with natural “whole” fruits and contains zero added sugar.

Recipe for Berry Blast Popsicles

Berry Blast Popsicles

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Note: If you have a Zoku Quick Pop popsicle maker, or another popsicle maker, you can make these popsicles two-toned (follow the instructions that come with the Zoku maker for how to make 2-toned popsicles), otherwise just make 3 all-strawberry and 3 all-blueberry pops.

• Author: Ivy Larson

Ingredients

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Strawberry Popsicles

• 1 banana, sliced
• ¾ cup frozen organic strawberries
• 5 pitted dates
• ¼ cup raw cashew nuts (preferably soaked in water for 1–2 hours)
• ¼ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
• ½ cup water

Blueberry Popsicles

• 1 cup frozen blueberries
• 7 pitted dates
• ¼ cup raw cashew nuts (preferably soaked in water for 1–2 hours)
• ¼ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 3 tablespoons fresh lemon
• ¼ cup water

Instructions

Strawberry Popsicles:

Place all ingredients in a high speed blender, and process until smooth and creamy. Pour mixture into popsicle molds and freeze.

Blueberry Popsicles

Place all ingredients in a high speed blender, and process until smooth and creamy. Pour mixture into popsicle molds and freeze.