Like every summer, we’ve made a lot of popsicles over the past few weeks. They’re fun to make, easy enough for a preschooler to do almost all of the work, don’t require heat, and they’re delicious!
As another plus, you can be as creative as you’d like with the ingredients and try a new combination each time – or repeat a favorite, of course!
We’re all big fans of strawberries around here {I think the kids never had a choice because I ate SO MANY strawberries when I was pregnant :p Seriously, it was my major pregnancy craving!}, so we keep coming back to recipes involving them.
We’ve made strawberry lemonade, strawberry chocolate chip cake, and these healthy frozen yogurt pops have strawberry puree! This time, E decided to go with strawberry puree again, but she mixed things up a little and came up with Strawberry Orange Frozen Yogurt Pops!
(E was 4 years and 6 months old.)
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At this point, E can do pretty much everything she needs to do for these frozen yogurt popsicles herself.
She hulled and cut the strawberries {it’s not actually necessary to cut them, but she wanted to},
then placed them in the food processor to puree them. {We have this one and love it! It’s big enough for most things we want to chop or puree, but small enough for E to handle it with no help except for when it comes to putting in and taking out the sharp blades.}
The strawberry puree went into a bowl,
and E added some yogurt and a little bit of orange juice.
Of course, she had to sneak a taste of the mixture and declared it delicious!
After she’d spooned the yogurt mixture into the popsicle molds about 3/4 full, she decided to finish them off with straight orange juice. I helped a little with this step because it was a big, heavy bottle.
After a few hours in the freezer, the popsicles looked great and tasted even better!
Even N got his first taste of a popsicle! Don’t worry, this is the basic look on his face whenever he tries anything at all 😉
Strawberry Orange Frozen Yogurt Pops
Ingredients
- Large handful of fresh or frozen strawberries.
- 3-4 tbsp plain yogurt.
- Orange juice.
Instructions
- Hull and puree the strawberries.
- Mix the strawberry puree with plain yogurt and a little orange juice, to taste.
- Spoon the yogurt mixture into the popsicle molds.
- If you don't fill the molds up all the way, fill the rest with orange juice for a two-tone look.
- Freeze for about 4-6 hours.
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How awesome she can do pretty much the whole thing herself! She must be so proud of the finished product!
Yes, she loves it! And I’m proud of her for doing all of it 🙂