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Do you have any good popsicle "recipes"?

I know it's not hard to mix up some juice and freeze it, but maybe you have some homemade popsicle experience and know some tips? I want to do more than just the usual! Add fresh fruit or herbs or seltzer water and stuff like that. Tips are appreciated!

Homemade ice cream tips/recipes are also helpful!

Frozen treats are the only way I will survive the summer.

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    Any juicy fresh fruit can be pureed and frozen--melon works great, so do grapes and oranges. Peaches with an extra blob of mango juice are awesome.
    If you dig weird tropical fruits, go to the tiny Mexican grocery on the farthest east side of Pike Place Market, their freezer has frozen lulo and guava, among others. Lulo is some kind of mysterious candyfruit, it rocks.
    If you want to get swank with herbs, soak the herbs in some warm juice overnight, remove the herbs, and freeze the juice, otherwise you end up with annoying plant matter in your popsicles. Lemon balm + apricot nectar = yum.
    Or, just make Kool-Aid with about 70% the standard water amount, and freeze that.

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    Blend fresh pineapple with ginger ale. Seriously, the yummiest thing ever.

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    I recommend David Lebovitz's book The Perfect Scoop. The chapter on granitas could pretty much all be frozen as popsicles, I think, and the chapters on ice cream and sorbet are both absolutely terrific. I have not been disappointed with any of the recipes and have tried out some really creative combinations!

    He has a blog called The Sweet Life in Paris (http://www.davidlebovitz.com/) and posts a ton of recipes on it, so you can always try before you buy. :)

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    I love making watermelon popsicles--just seed, puree and freeze in popsicle molds.

    In the summer here, I make goodie-goodie (guri-guri), which was a popular treat in Honolulu when I was growing up. It's like a milky sherbet that you flavor with any combo of juice and soda that you prefer. I usually use either strawberry/guava juice or pineapple.

    2 cans (24 ounces) juice
    1 can (12 ounces) 7 UP®
    1 can (14 ounces) sweetened condensed milk

    Combine all ingredients in a large bowl w/a whisk or fork. Freeze for 1.5 hours, remove from freezer and stir again, vigorously. Return to freezer for 1 hour, then stir. Transfer to individual serving containers and freeze until firm (at least 8 hours, preferably 12 or more).

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    I like to put frozen (or fresh) strawberries and plain or vanilla yogurt in the food processor until it's all blended, and then spoon it into popsicle molds and freeze. YUM. Really you could do it with any fruit/yogurt combo that you'd like. Creamy, tasty, and healthy.

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    Well, there is one recipe I seem to remember from Savage Love...

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    I don't do this as much as when I was a kid, but I love pickle popsicles, made by freezing pickle juice. :)

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    1....1 pkg.any flavour sugar free jello-- mix with 8 oz boiled water

    2....add 4 oz cold water

    3....add 4 oz any kind of juice(ex:orange or cranberry)

    4....add 4 oz yogurt(vanilla or plain is real good)

    5....Makes 10-2 oz popsicles

    6....Freeze for about 4 hrs.

    NOTE: Use fatfree yogurt

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    Blend young coconut meat, coconut water/juice, agave to taste and a pinch of salt - fantastijazzical

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    Limonata or other lemon-flavored soda.

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