Homemade Fudgesicles

This is a guest post by my wonderful sister. She's been pestering me to let her post something so here is her post on some homemade fudgesicles that she made recently. Having been part of the unofficial taste testing panel I give these my stamp of approval. This the popsicle mold used to make these fudgesicles.

Hi There!!!I am guest posting today and I am very excited!! Woot Woot!! I have never blogged before in my life.  So growing up, these were one of my favorite ice cream pops to eat. I am a chocoholic and love anything flavored with chocolate.Any who, as a mom, I try to make anything and everything possible from scratch.  I have made chocolate and vanilla ice cream at home and the results exceed anything store bought.  It's a win win situation when I can make something homemade,  the quality of the flavor can't compare and you know what is going into what you are making.  I first saw these on Brown Eyed Baker, one of my favorite blogs, and I couldn't wait to try them.   I substituted a couple of things because I used what I had in the kitchen.  It was daughter and kid sister approved, it doesn't get any better than that :).

Homemade Bomb Pops

I picked up these popsicle molds a few weeks ago because of their fun shape. I was planning on using them as molds for regular popsicles, but today being the 4th of July I decided to use them to make homemade Bomb Pops. Most of my memories with Bomb Pops come from the ice cream truck. I was more attached to the ice creams shaped like characters with the little gumballs for the eyes, but on hot summer days sometimes nothing would cool you down quite like a Bomb Pop.

These are a healthier version of Bomb Pops. Instead of food coloring and syrups these popsicles are made of fruit, yogurt, milk, and agave. I changed things up a bit and made the red layer strawberry rather than raspberry or cherry.

You can use fresh or frozen fruit to make these popsicles. The original recipe actually called for frozen fruit, but I when it came time to build the red layer the only red fruit I had on hand was fresh strawberries. I pureed those as the recipe instructed and the popsicles turned out well. You can see in the picture where some of the blueberry drizzled into the yogurt mixture. This is where I pulled the popsicles stick out to pour in the yogurt mixture. The blueberry puree wasn't as frozen as I had thought it was so to be sure that you don't get any runny colors make sure that the purees have frozen completely before you remove the sticks to add the next layer.

Ooey Gooey Brownie Sundaes

When I made these brownies I was hit with inspiration to make a completely homemade brownie sundae. The great thing about homemade food is that you know where all the ingredients are coming from and everything tastes better. I made some modifications to the ice cream recipe and the fudge sauce recipe because we were out of some of the ingredients. For the ice cream I substituted an extra cup of heavy cream for the 1 cup of whole milk that the original recipe calls for. This made the ice cream extra rich. I also modified some of the steps because we didn't have any vanilla bean so I adapted the sections of the recipe that pertained to that. For the chocolate sauce, we didn't have any light corn syrup or golden syrup on hand so I used light agave nectar.

As you can see in the picture the sundae melted rather quickly (our AC wasn't working!), but I think that it adds to the deliciousness. If  you're like my niece you can add some sprinkles (jimmies!) on top. Though I'm not sure you want to use as many as she does...