This simple and refreshing frozen treat is the perfect thing for hot summer days! Personally, I love using fresh, local strawberries — whether that mean dropping by a farmer's market on Saturday morning, or if I'm lucky, making a day of it with my family at local farm to pick them ourselves!
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If you're looking for a taste of summer during the winter months, frozen strawberries will work just fine, though! Even when it's cold outside, this is still the perfect, sweet treat!
I love the strawberry season! Do you too? Try my other strawberry recipes if you're looking for more strawberry recipes!
- Austrian Strawberry Sponge Cake
- Strawberry Cupcakes with Ricotta
- Strawberry Flavored Whipped Cream
- Strawberry Cobbler
- Strawberry Simple Syrup
- Strawberry Spritz
- No-bake Strawberry Cheesecake
- Strawberry Milkshake
- Strawberry Cream
- Strawberry Milk
🥘 Ingredients
- Fresh strawberries - for an intense strawberry flavor
- Powdered sugar
- Lemons - fresh lemon juice
See the recipe card for quantities.
🔪 Instructions
Before you really get started, you want your ice cream maker bowl to be as cold as possible! The longer you can keep it in there the better. Ideally, you should pop the bowl into your freezer for a full day, but if you're really craving this sweet treat, letting it sit overnight will work, too!
The first thing you'll need to do is wash and clean your fresh strawberries.
Once that's done, you can place them in an electric chopper/food processor and blend until you've got a nice pureed consistency.
From here, get out a medium mixing bowl and sift your powdered sugar through a sieve. Next, you'll add the strawberry purée to the powdered sugar. I recommend processing the strawberries through the sieve as well to give them an even smoother consistency.
Once your crushed strawberries have been sifted, you'll need to squeeze the juice from 1 ½ lemons into the mixture. This is a really important step, which not only gives your sweet treat great flavor but helps keep it fresh in the freezer for even longer.
You'll need to break out a food processor and the whisk attachment — or electric hand mixer if you don't have a food processor in your kitchen — to mix all the ingredients until it's well blended.
For this next step, I personally use the Kitchen Aid Ice Cream Maker Attachment. If you use something different, the only thing you really need to ensure before getting started is the bowl is nice and cold! Remove your ice cream maker bowl from the freezer and insert it.
Go ahead and pour your strawberry mixture into the ice cream maker. After you've filled that up, insert the dasher and turn on to level two. You'll need to mix everything together for about 5-10 minutes.
Once that's ready, though, you can pour the mixture into popsicle molds — like these cute popsicle molds — and freeze! If you don't have any popsicle molds on hand, you can also freeze your sweet treat directly into dessert bowls and serve it!
🍍 Variations
If you're not in the mood for strawberries but still want a sweet summertime treat, this recipe also works great with pineapple! Unless you're from Hawaii or some other tropical destination, you probably won't be able to pick your own pineapples for this recipe, but pineapples from the supermarket or even the canned food aisle will still work!
You're not limited to just pineapple, though! Blueberries, raspberries, mangos, and most other fruits all make for great, refreshing popsicle fillings!
🍽 Equipment
- Closed Meshed Sieve
- Electric Chopper/Food Processor
- Lemon Squeezer
- Kitchen Aid with Ice Cream Maker Attachment
- Spatula
- Your favorite popsicle mold or Loaf Pan
🌡 Storage
These sweet treats will have a long shelf life in the freezer! Whether you keep them in popsicles molds, or in a loaf pan, just make sure you properly cover them before storing them away to enjoy another day!
💭 Top tip
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If you fancy a non-fruity popsicle, try out these delicious homemade fudgesicles! They are amazing!
🙋🏻 FAQ
If you don't have any popsicle molds, there's plenty of other ways for you to freeze, store, and enjoy your sweet treat! Instead, you can freeze your popsicles into an ice cube tray, a loaf pan, or even the bowls you plan to serve them in!
Six hours in the freezer is recommended when freezing strawberry popsicles. Preferably overnight.
Yes, of course! Besides strawberries or pineapples, other types of fresh berries are perfect for this type of homemade popsicle!
This sweet treat can be enjoyed even on cold days. Use frozen strawberries as a substitute for fresh fruit during the winter months.
Other Recipes for You to Try
- Fresh Strawberry Sponge Cake
- Mini Blueberry Pavlova
- Easy Pineapple Dessert
- Fig Cheesecake in a Jar {No-Bake}
- Lovely Lavender Spritz Cocktail
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📖 Recipe
Best Strawberry Popsicles Recipe
Equipment
- Closed Meshed Sieve
- Electric chopper Food Processor
Ingredients
- 14.1 oz Fresh strawberries
- 1 ¾ cups Powdered Sugar
- 1 ½ Lemons squeezed
Instructions
- Wash and clean the strawberries.14.1 oz Fresh strawberries
- Then chop them with the electric chopper.
- Sift the powdered sugar through a sieve into a mixing bowl. Add the crushed strawberries to the powdered sugar, also process them through a sieve to make it even smoother.1 ¾ cups Powdered Sugar
- Squeeze 1 ½ lemons and add the juice.1 ½ Lemons
- Using a food processor and the whisk attachment (an electric hand mixer can also be used), mix the ingredients until well blended.
- Prepare the ice cream maker: We use the ice cream maker from Kitchen aid. Here, all you need to do is remove the ice cream maker bowl from the freezer, which was frozen in advance, and insert it.
- Then pour the strawberry mixture into the ice cream maker.
- After filling, insert the dasher and turn on to level two. Freeze for about 5-10 minutes.
- Once the frozen strawberry mixture is ready, pour it into ice cream popsicle molds, insert a popsicle stick and let it set in the freezer.
Nutrition values are estimates only, using online calculators. Please verify using your own data.
⛑️ Food Safety
- Cook to a minimum temperature of 165 °F (74 °C)
- Do not use the same utensils on cooked food, that previously touched raw meat
- Wash hands after touching raw meat
- Don't leave food sitting out at room temperature for extended periods
- Never leave cooking food unattended
- Use oils with high smoking point to avoid harmful compounds
- Always have good ventilation when using a gas stove
For further information, check Safe Food Handling - FDA.
Andréa Janssen
We loved these homemade strawberry popsicles. They had a rich strawberry flavor and made from fresh fruit. So great!
Stephanie
These strawberry ice pops are so yummy! The kids enjoy making treats with me and this one is simple enough for them.
Elizabeth
These are perfect for the Texas heat. Thanks for the recipe!
Lucy
These strawberry popsicles are so easy to make. They're the perfect refreshing treat especially during the warmer months.
Ramona Sebastian
These strawberry popsicles are really easy to make. Definitely a perfect refreshing alternative during the hot weather which I’m soo looking forward to.