ice-pops

After a big hearty grill-out, nothing makes a better hot weather dessert than sweet and spicy peach-chile ice pops. Dig right in!

Ice pops: Because it's hot out and everything tastes better on a stick.With all due respect to the twin pops of our youths, sometimes smashing blackberries into Greek yogurt and freezing it in ice pop molds is the grown-up thing to do. Harnessing the delicious power of more sophisticated pairings like watermelon and parsley, avocado…

We have a contender for most useful cookbook of the summer! Ice Pops! (Exclamation point included.) This collection of 50 inventive frozen treats on a stick will keep you cool all summer long. Remember: Small-batch is always better.Apricots make deliciously velvety ice pops. Make them in midsummer before apricots vanish for the year again. Choose…

In June, Food Republic is counting the many reasons to love Asian food in America right now. Here’s one of them.Pastry chef Jen Yee grew up eating green tea ice cream, which gets its vibrant hue from matcha, a powdered form of green tea showing up in sweet and savory applications across the culinary world. A…

We have a contender for most useful cookbook of the summer! Ice Pops! (Exclamation point included.) This collection of 50 inventive frozen treats on a stick will keep you cool all summer long. Remember: Small-batch is always better. This very tangy creamy English classic is satisfaction immortalized in ice.Reprinted from Ice Pops!

Be prepared for a pair of beautifully stained magenta lips after eating these Russian-inspired ice pops, which are full of health benefits. It’s easiest to use fresh store-bought beet juice, but you can also make your own, of course. If you do, be sure to keep the skins on when you run them through the…

While it may be one of the most wonderful food and booze pairings in the natural world, leave bourbon and bacon cookbooks to the highly experienced folks at Southern Living. Author Morgan Murphy says it's not a diet book, and that's an understatement. As long as this wonderful collection is in your kitchen, you may…

There's never been a better time for refreshing, slightly alcohol-infused popsicles. Cause you know what popsicle-making time entails. Sticking one's head in the freezer. Just for a second or six. Check out these boozy spiked treats and ones not-yet-spiked so the young'uns can enjoy them too. But you can add booze if you want, just…

It’s July. You don’t need a degree in meteorology – is that a thing? – to know that it’s hot out there. Thankfully, one of this summer’s hottest trends is as cold as ice. At farm stands, food trucks and specialty shops around the country, popsicles are getting the gourmet treatment with farm-fresh ingredients, exotic…

Popsicles: because it's hot out and everything tastes better on a stick. With all due respect to the twin pops of our youths, sometimes smashing blackberries into Greek yogurt and freezing it in ice pop molds is the grown-up thing to do. Warning: some of these are boozy. Double-check before setting up a stand and…

While I was looking for photographic evidence to discourage you from trying to crush ice with an immersion blender (see also: list of frozen drinkery dos and don'ts), I found the ridiculous photo to the right. I've spent the past two nights experimenting with the concept implied by this photo, assuming of course that the…

And now, a Frozen Drinks Week video interlude. We're into these piña colada ice pops on Cooking Channel's YouTube show, Stupidly Simple Snacks. True to the title, this is about as easy as a homemade frozen drink gets — no fancy machines or elaborate cocktail-crafting. You just need a blender and a popsicle mold. It…

When Nathalie and Dave were kids in Miami, Nath's family had a potted parsley plant that she would secretely pinch bites from, like it was candy. She did this so often that the parsley suffered, and her mom, believing that the plant had become diseased, threw it out. Nath, still a staunch supporter of the…

Ideally, this pop would be savored on a front porch somewhere in North Carolina, surrounded by fireflies and the chirp of crickets and accompanied by the languorous strains of a bluegrass Dobro. But it's pretty good even in a crappy apartment in the city. In a bizarre post-modern reversal, these days you can buy moonshine…

The slightly bitter flavor of Campari is a great counterpoint to the sweet innocence of cantaloupe. This is an adult ice pop, but if you can find a dock to dangle your feet over while you eat this, we recommend it: you'll feel like a kid again, albeit a very wise one.Pro Tips: How To…

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