Grown-up icy pole recipes

Grown-up icy poles

Cool down with grown-up icy poles this summer. We all enjoy a good icy pole on a hot summer day. You’ll be able to put together these summer desserts in no time. By making your own, you know exactly how much sugar is going in to your summer dessert. All of these recipes are kid-friendly with more mature flavours.

You’ll need an icy pole mould set to make these delicious summer desserts. You could also make these icy poles with an ice cube tray. I bought a Tovolo Star Pops Moulds set to make my icy poles.

Ginger ale and lime

Ingredients

600ml of ginger ale (You can substitute with ginger beer. We suggest Schweppes Ginger Ale)

Lime juice

Method

Fill with icy pole mold with ginger ale almost full.

Squeeze a small amount of lime juice either from a lime or lime juice bottle. You won’t need to add

much lime juice.

Stir the ginger ale and lime juice in the icy pole molds and freeze overnight.

Makes 6 icy poles.

Chai and Chocolate

Ingredients

3 cups of milk

3 tablespoons of chai tea mix

3 teaspoons of honey

3 tablespoons of chocolate powder

Additional ingredients you may want to sprinkle your icy pole mix with:

cinnamon

ginger

chilli

cloves

ainseen

cinnamon sugar

coconut sugar.

Method

Firstly, warm the milk in a saucepan on medium heat.

Add the chai tea mix and any additional flavours.

Add the honey once the milk is warm.

Keep an eye on the chai milk mixture whilst stirring it often avoiding the milk to burn.

Take the chai milk off the heat once the milk has changed to a light brown colour and smells fragrant of chai.

Pour the chai milk into a large bowl. Add the chocolate powder to the bowl and mix.

Then, pour the mixture in to icy pole moulds and freeze overnight.

Makes 6 icy poles.

Raspberry and Blueberry Coulis and Yogurt

Ingredients

600g vanilla or greek yoghurt

200g of raspberries

100g of blueberries

4 tablespoons of water

lime or lemon juice if desired

Method

In a saucepan, add raspberries and blueberries and caster sugar with the water to simmer on medium heat stirring often. Be mindful not to boil the water.

Depending on how you want your berries in your icy pole, you can transfer the berry mixture to a bowl to pulse with a stick mixer. This method will make the coulis smooth. Another option is to leave the berry mix as it is which will be more lumpy. This is my preferred method.

If desired, you can add a small squeeze of lime or lemon juice to complete the coulis.

Pour the yogurt into the icy pole mould up to ¾ full. Then add the last ¼ with the Raspberry and Blueberry Coulis. Then, freeze overnight to enjoy the next day.

Makes 6 icy poles.

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