Discover the delight in making colourful ice lollies for children. The ice lollies are made with 100% fruit, with no sugar or other processed ingredients added to them. These dessert recipes are ideal for cooling off on a hot summer day!
Making ice lollies with fruit ice is very easy. All you need is a small hand blender, ice lolly moulds, ripe fruit, and a freezer. If you haven't got any ice lolly moulds, you can use small freezer containers instead. Our children loved scraping the frozen fruit puree out of the small containers with a spoon as it melted and slowly turned into slush. If you haven't got a bender, use a fork to mash the fruit. Mashed up fruit looks quite affective when frozen. The Dapple ice lollies are a good example of this.
The fruit ice lollies are ideal for children who have limited food choices in their diet including:
The ice lollies can be made in different colours, flavours, and patterns. It's a fun way to get the children involved. Simply provide your children with different coloured fruit purees and let them put the puree into the ice lolly moulds using a small spoon. Ice lolly tip 1 shows you how easy it is to make two different coloured ice lollies with just one ice lolly recipe.
Please note
It is advisable to drink water after eating an ice lolly due to
the fructose (a natural sugar) and acid in fruit. Drinking water helps
to rinse the fructose and acid away, both of which can affect the teeth.
Fruit Ice Lollies
Strawberry Ice Lolly - Left
Kiwi Ice Lolly - middle
Mango Ice Lolly - right
Before you start making the ice lollies please check the fresh fruit tips and ice lolly tips because the ice lollies may need a little forward planning. Fruit is not always ripe when you buy it from the shop and the most important aspect when making the ice lollies is that you use ripe fruit. This is to achieve optimum colour, flavour, and sweetness. Unripe fruit can spoil an otherwise tasty ice lolly.
Please
note
Fruit
puree should be eaten or frozen straight after blending, fruit can deteriorate quickly if not eaten straight
away.
This method produces ice lollies in a range of different colours and flavours depending on the fruit used in the ice lolly recipe. The fruit is prepared by washing, peeling, hulling etc. The fruit is then simply blended to make a fruit puree and poured into the ice lolly moulds ready for freezing.
I use fresh fruit to make all the ice lollies apart from pineapple when I am short of time. Fresh pineapple is delicious, but it is time consuming to prepare, and only a small part of it is required. I use tinned pineapple (in natural juice) for convenience. If you are unsure about checking the ripeness of the fruit or how to prepare it then the Quick Fruit Guide will help and give you some idea.
Ingredients
1 ripe mango
3
tinned
pineapple rings (or fresh equivalent)
6 medium strawberries
Makes 6 x 2fl oz (60 ml) fruit ice lollies
(approximately)
Method
Tip
Use more strawberries for a darker red
Quick & Easy Fruit Ice Lollies
All the ice lollies on this page will be made using Recipe 1, using mango, pineapple, and strawberries. The aim is to show you how easy it is to make fruit ice lollies more colourful and enticing for children, with little extra effort required. Once you are familiar with these easy tips you will be able to apply them to some other ice lolly recipes too. The fruit ice lollies can be tweaked by adding more of a certain fruit to create a more vibrant ice lolly or to enhance the taste.
If your child is not keen on mango, then you can use a banana instead to create slightly different effect and flavour. The Splatter ice lollies and Gentle Shade ice lollies show examples of this. Alternatively, the strawberries can be swapped with raspberries. Just some of the many ice lollies that can be made using recipe 1 are shown below and more ice lolly images can be found on the ice lolly recipe ebook page.
Using recipe 1 you can make two different coloured/flavoured ice lollies using the Quick and Easy method. This enables you to offer a choice of ice lollies to your children, with very little extra effort.
Method
Tip
Use more pineapple for a more enhanced tropical flavour
Method
Instructions on how to make a batch of Tandem Ice Lollies using the two colour pouring technique can be found at the bottom of the ice lolly tips page.
Method
Method
Mango, Pineapple and Strawberry Ice
Lollies
Banana Dapple Ice Lolly
- left
Mango Dapple
Ice Lolly - right
Method - No blender required
Tip
For a slightly different effect or flavour use a banana instead of the
mango as demonstrated on the left in the photo above. If you are
not keen on strawberries, then raspberries would work well too.
Use Recipe 1 to create a red and amber fruit puree for the traffic light ice lollies and the Kiwi ice lolly recipe to create the green.
Traffic Light Ice Lolly - left
Splatter Ice Lolly - middle
Splodge Ice Lolly - right
Recipe 1
- to create the red and amber
1 ripe mango
3 pineapple rings (tinned or fresh equivalent)
6 medium strawberries
Method
1 small banana
kiwi -
1 or 2 depending on the size or
ripeness of the fruit
Method
For the Traffic Light ice lollies follow up to number 2 above and then use the green fruit puree along with the instructions below.
The Traffic light ice lolly has been made using Recipe 1 to make the red and yellow fruit puree for the traffic light. Kiwi and banana were used to make the green fruit puree. The number of kiwis required to make the right colour of green may vary due to the ripeness or size of the kiwi used. For green ice lollies simply blend the prepared banana and kiwi together, pour the fruit puree into the ice lolly moulds, add the ice lolly handles and freeze.
The tips and information on this website will have given you some idea on how to make ice lollies. Not all fruit goes well together but through trial and error you will start getting some idea. More ice lolly images (using Recipe 1) for inspiration and other ice lolly recipes can be found on the fruit ice lolly website. If you prefer to follow a recipe to make different ice lollies and discover lots more ice lolly tips you might be interested to have a look at my 'Craft Ice Lollies Fun to Make and Healthy Too!' ice lolly recipe book.
Ice Lolly Recipe
Book
(printed booklet)