Continuing on the pie theme…

Popsicle # 26: Pumpkin Pie

(Blend pumpkin pie mix, cinnamon, nutmeg, sweetened condensed milk and a little plain yogurt.)

This one tastes exactly like pumpkin pie and was super delicious.  The pops were also dense and filling.    I thought I had got a can of regular pumpkin but it turned out to be pumpkin pie mix, which probably is why it tastes so good. Maybe next time I’ll adding some graham cracks to give a little piecrust effect.

Spoons!

Note the dented can. It was a public health/food safety concern but the pursuit of pops won out.

Summer Dreaming

Popsicle # 25: Peach Praline

(make sugar pecans by coating pecans with brown sugar and about a tablespoon of milk and bake for about 30 minutes.  Defrost frozen peaches and blend with sweetened condensed milk, cinnamon, nutmeg and maple syrup and add chopped up sugary pecans.)

These were good.  They would have been better with in-season ripe peaches.  I also tried to make layers of pecans. It would have tasted better if they were all over that popsicle.  But still, totally worth repeating this one.

Peach Praline

Commanding Popsicles

One of my brilliant ideas of the Popsicle Season 2011 was the invention of the commanding popsicle.  The game goes: write commands on the popsicles sticks in Sharpie, make the popsicle, make your friends eat the popsicle and command them do whatever the popsicle stick tells them to do.  This is a more low-key (and potentially less racy) version of the “secret missions” game at post-camp parties.  And these are WAY better than those bad jokes you got on popsicle sticks as a kid.

I made around 75 commanding popsicles for my 30^th(!!!) birthday party.   Lucia was a great help in the creating of commands, as demonstrated below.

Welcome to Popsicle Season 2012!

But what happened to Popsicle Season 2011? Don’t worry.  In the last 1½ years, popsicles have been being made and friends have been eating them.  Unfortunately, the Popsicle Season 2011 was upstaged by the manic buying-a-house-and-moving season, thus leaving little time for creative popsicles making or blogging about it.  But I’m back, more settled and excited to blend shit and freeze it.