Seeing
as how the weather is supposed to be heating up here in Australia, I
decided to make some different flavoured popsicles today.
I made two flavours - Choc-Banana and Coconut Pine-Lime.
Choc Banana - Makes 6
Ingredients:
1 large banana - the riper the better
1/3 cup nutella - melted in microwave for 30 seconds
1/2 cup light milk
200ml (1/2 can) coconut cream
Method:
Mash the banana in a large bowl.
Once it is all broken and smashed up add the light milk.
Whisk these together until they are combined and smooth.
Add the nutella and continue whisking.
Add the coconut cream and mix thouroughly.
Once everything is added, pour the mixture into a popsicle mould.
(Mine cost $1.95 from Ikea and is super cute)
Pop it into the freezer for at least 4 hours, but overnight is best.
^It
really is super hard to wait the whole 4 hours, I had a little bit left
over that i froze in a small container and ttied after about an hour,
the outside was a sliky smooth mousse-like texture and the inside was
still liquid... Oops. This recipe also turns out be quite sweet, even
for me, and I have a massive sweet tooth. So if you aren't all that fond
of super sweet desserts, I would reccommend adding 1/4 cup of nutella
and and extra banana and you should be fine.
Coconut Pine-Lime
^My
nice picture of all of the ingredients has decieded to delete itself
instead of uploading - so here is a picture of some Jelly.
Ingredients:
85g Pack of pinapple jelly
85g Pack of lime jelly
1 cup boiling water
3/4 cup light milk
200 ml (1/2 can) coconut cream
Method:
Mix both packs of dry jelly crystals in a heat-proof bowl and add boiling water.
Mix with for until all of the crystals disolve. Put aside to cool, while mixing other ingredients.
In a seperate bowl whisk the milk and the coconut cream together.
once the jelly mix has cooled down slightly, slowly whisk it into the milk mixture, until it is all incorporated.
Continue whisking for another 60 seconds, to make the mixture light and fluffy. (It's so fluffy I could die)
Pour
into moulds, pop them in the freezer and wait at least 4 hours. But,
over night is still the best. Even though it is really hard to wait a
whole night to get at these bad boys. Once frozen, they will taste kind
of similar to a Splice, just without the crunchy amazingness on the
outside. They will have a nice smooth airy finish and be almost
completely irrisistable.
^For a vegetarian alternative, use coconut cream.
^^For
a vegan alternative use lemon and lime juice and agar agar to make the
jelly (somehow, I'm not vegan and need help, otherwise I might just
sound patronising, where are all the vegans when you need them? lol.)
But seriously, if you know how to do this vegan style, let me know:]
Peace out. B x
