The steps for making homemade popsicles include preparing ingredients, making ice mixture, selecting popsicle molds, filling with ice mixture, freezing and solidifying, demolding and tasting.

1. Prepare materials

First, prepare the required materials, including fruit juice, milk, yogurt or other favorite liquids as the basic ingredients of the ice mixture. In addition, flavorings and additives such as sugar, honey, and vanilla extract are needed, as well as tools such as popsicle molds, sticks, and ice cube boxes.

2. Make ice mixture

In a container, pour the selected liquid base ingredients and add an appropriate amount of sugar, honey or other sweeteners according to personal taste . If you want to add texture or flavor, add vanilla extract or other flavorings. Stir well until the sugar is completely dissolved.

3. Choose a popsicle mold

Choose a suitable popsicle mold according to your personal preferences. You can choose from traditional wooden popsicle sticks or plastic molds with lids or bases. Make sure the mold is clean and has good sealing properties.

4. Fill the ice mixture

Pour the prepared ice mixture into the popsicle mold, leaving appropriate space, because the ice mixture will expand during the freezing process. If you want to make multiple flavors of popsicles, you can pour different ice mixtures into the mold one after another, or use dividers to separate different liquids.

5. Freezing and solidification

Put the popsicle mold filled with ice mixture into the freezer or refrigerator to freeze and solidify at low temperature. It generally takes 4 to 6 hours to completely set, depending on the freezing equipment and ice mix recipe.

6. Unmold and taste

After the ice mixture has completely solidified, take the popsicle mold out of the freezer or refrigerator. If using a plastic mold with a lid or base, follow the instructions to unmold first. If using a traditional wooden stick mold, you can unmold it by soaking it in warm water for a few seconds. Finally, it’s time to enjoy your homemade popsicles!

Expand knowledge:

1. You can try different recipes and flavors when making homemade popsicles. You can make fruit and vegetable popsicles by juicing or chopping fresh fruit and adding it to the ice mixture. Nuts, chocolate chips, jam, etc. can also be added as flavor variations.

2. For those who like milk flavor, you can use milk, yogurt or plant milk instead of fruit juice as the basic ingredient to make milk-flavored popsicles. Add chocolate powder, coffee powder or nut paste to increase the taste.

3. When filling the ice mixture, you can add fresh fruit pieces, jam or nut fragments to the mold to increase the taste and appearance of the popsicle.

4. In order to increase the brightness of the popsicle colors, you can use food coloring or natural dyes. For example, add blueberry juice to make blue popsicles, add carrot juice to make orange popsicles, etc.

5. If you want to make more creative and interesting popsicles, you can use special-shaped popsicle molds, such as animal shapes, flower shapes, etc. You can also add colored sugar or rainbow candies to the ice mixture to create gorgeous and colorful popsicles.