My kids were on spring break last week, and the day before we were to leave to spend Easter with my folks in Virginia, Joshua became, for some reason, obsessed with the idea of making his own popsicles. Why? I don’t know. It was rainy and yucky so it’s not like a heat wave inspired him. And he cannot tell me why when I ask. It just occurred to him to try. He even wrote out some instructions of his own:
He reaallllly wanted to try and make some popsicles so I told him we would do it in Virginia (even though I was fairly sure his instructions weren’t fool-proof.) On the way to Virginia, I started thinking about these really amazing popsicles the wonderful ladies at the church I grew up at would make us every year at Vacation Bible School. I knew they had Jell-o in them, but I didn’t know exactly how to make them. However, since they are in my childhood memory, the PERFECT popsicle, I decided we should try our hand at them.
Luckily, when we got to my parent’s place, my mom had some Jell-O (Berry Blue, in fact). My darling husband got out his Droid X and googled a recipe for Jell-O popsicles and VOILA! He found one! I have no idea where exactly he found it and he doesn’t remember so I am sorry I cannot give credit. But just so ya know, I didn’t come up with this myself. Here’s how to make the PERFECT popsicle!
One package Jell-O, any flavor
1 tbs sugar
water (however much the Jell-O package says)
Mix the Jell-O according to package directions. Add in one tablespoon sugar and stir. Pour evenly into Dixie cups, insert popsicle stick and freeze overnight. To release from cups, thaw a few seconds in hot water, then ENJOY!
The smallest cups we could find at ye olde local dollar store were 9 0z., but a Dixie cup would be a good size. However, you can make them as big or small as you want to. My genius husband came up with this contraption for keeping the popsicle sticks in the liquid before putting them in the freezer:
We froze them overnight and they came out A-W-E-S-O-M-E! They are so perfect because they don’t DRIP everywhere and they taste yuuuuumy. We all really enjoyed them! They were exactly like the wonderful popsicles I had at Vacation Bible School so many years ago. SO, if you have any Jell-O in the pantry, and you want your kids to think you are super-awesome, go make ya some!
Joshua highly recommends it!
So, you boil the water and everything? Basically frozen jello with a little sugar added?? I love all manner of frozen confections. Thanks for the idea!
Yep, boil the water and everything! It’s just make jello, add sugar, pour into cups and freeze instead of refrigerating. SO GOOD! And they really did NOT drip!!
Thanks Jenny!!
Another idea that made wonderful — and nutritious — popsicles. Take leftover smoothies and freeze them into smoothie pops! Delicious! My little girl has a bunch of food allergies, so we make smoothies with banana, frozen strawberries, yogurt (we use goat’s milk yogurt!), honey (helps with seasonal allergies), stevia, a little orange juice and milk (or we used goat’s milk). Make it EXTRA SWEET to make into popsicles. You could probably also add ground protein powders or flax meal to make it even healthier!
An easier “contraption” for making the popsicle sticks stay in place is to put Aluminum Foil over the tops of the cups, and insert the stick through the aluminum foil. the foil will keep ’em in place!
Dude. Bobby is definitely the brains of this operation.
Whatevs, I TOTALLY boiled the water all by myself! Genius!
I actually watched this miracle occur. Mrs. Duggar was in tears when I told her about it…she said, “Well, there’s hope after all!!”
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ps…what, no blue tongue pictures?
When I saw the title of this post, I thought, “She must be writing about VBS jello popcicles!” THEY WERE THE BEST EVER! That, pony rides, and the Gum Tree made VBS rad! Now, if I can only get Rita’s zesty chicken tacos recipe from mission trips, and Wanda’s graham cracker chocolate and pudding dessert thing from Wednesday night dinners!
now i’m hungry! great post! writing it down now!
OH and UP cracks me up!!
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I guess boiling water must be the key to this because I tried scalding hot water from the tap and all I got were very slimely Popsicles with frozen water centers. My daughter nor myself could make it through one. My son gave a much more gallant effort but then gave up in the end. Next time I’ll try boiling the water…this may explain the rubber-like-bottom layer of my regular Jello…hmmm, curious!