Watermelon Popsicles
When life hands you a mediocre watermelon….you make watermelon popsicles! The flavor gets a major pump up with strawberries, a little lime juice and some maple syrup (if needed). They have such a refreshing flavor! If you have kids in your life, they will love making and eating these with you.
This recipe idea is fully from my 3-year old daughter. She kept saying she wanted to make watermelon popsicles (she asks to make popsicles pretty much every day). I said, “I don’t really know how to make watermelon popsicles.” She ran to a random National Geographic Kids magazine that had a picture much like these. There was no recipe, so we figured it out, and loved the result.
If you don’t want to make popsicles, just make the pink part and drink it for a watermlon slushy! Tastes like the epitome of summer.
If you’re into popsicles, don’t miss these incredible Mango Pina Colada Popsicles or these secretely veggie-packed Fudgesicles.  And if you make any of these popsicles, please share a picture on social media and tag me!
Watermelon Popsicles
Ingredients
- 4-6 cups chopped watermelon (I eyeball it)
- 1 cup fresh or frozen strawberries
- juice of one lime
- 1 blip maple syrup to taste (optional)
White layer
- vanilla plant milk
Green layer
- 1 cup spinach or greens
- 1/2 banana
- 1/2 cup frozen pineapple or mango
- 1/2 cup water
Instructions
- In a blender, blend the strawberries, watermelon, lime juice together. Taste, and add a little maple syrup if you feel it needs it (some watermelon is sweeter than others). Pour into popsicle moldes, about 2/3 of the way up. Freeze at least 2 hours. Once slushy/firm enough, add the sticks. This is best when there are no covers on your sticks. If you only sticks with a cover, you might want to only make the pink layer.
- Pour a little bit of vanilla-flavored plant milk on top of each popsicle around the stick, and freeze again.
- Blend up the ingredients for the green layer, and pour a little bit on top of each popsicle. Enjoy the rest as a green smoothie.
- Once completely frozen, run the mold under hot water, slide them out, and enjoy!
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The recipe looked very interesting and I decided to try it. It didn’t say when to put the stick in. I have popsicle holders with covers. If I would put the cover on after the first layer I wouldn’t be able to take it off. I ended up making 3 layers and it looks very pretty but I have no handle. I suppose this is only good with a popsicle stick but how do you keep it in the middle?
Bummer, I’m so sorry! Popsicles with no stick are pretty hard to eat, haha! I will go and change the instructions to include when to add the sticks. It’s easiest with sticks that have no covers and you add them when the first layer is firm enough for them to stand in. But if you have a silicone mold, you could bend the mold a bit and pour the mixture in. If nothing else, you could just make the pink watermelon layer only.