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Tuesday, August 5, 2014

The one with boozy popsicles

Last month I treated myself to popsicles molds and immediately put them to good use by making strawberry and greek yoghurt popsicles. In the comments Kerry from Love Those Hands at Home suggested to make boozy ones the next time. Sounded like a perfect plan to me! So here you have it, boozy popsicles, inspired by a cocktail I like: Amaretto sours.

What you'll need:

half a lemon
a big glass of cloudy applejuice
a big tablespoon of honey
a shotglass of Amaretto

Squeeze the juice from the lemon

In a bowl, mix together all of the ingredients and give a good stir

Fill the molds, I had enough mixture for five popsicles

Put the molds in the freezer, I let them freeze for 24 hours

Have you ever made boozy treats? Or do you have a favourite cocktail recipe that might be turned into popsicles?

Monday, July 14, 2014

The one with the strawberry popsicles

I bumped into some super cute pink popsicles molds last week. Immediately childhood memories of warm summer nights, playing in the streets, enjoying sweet cold treats came to mind. I needed to get them, and made some popsicles the same evening. As a kid, we filled the molds with sweeter than sweet lemonade. These are a more adult-y and healthier version.

What you'll need:

popsicles molds (mine makes 6 popsicles, but the mixture could make about 10)
400 grams of strawberries
a big cup of greek yoghurt
5 big tablespoons of honey, or to taste

Wash the strawberries and remove the leafy tops

Puree the strawberries in your blender, and add the yoghurt and honey. Taste and add more honey if you don't think it's sweet enough. The strawberries I bought were pretty sweet, so five teaspoons of honey was enough for me.

Fill the molds with the mixture

I left them in the freezer over night

Enjoy!

I got these molds at Dutch store HEMA. They're € 1,50 and easy to use. After taking them out of the fridge, the popsicles were pretty easy to remove from the molds.

Do you like making your own popsicles? I've got one of them left, so I am in need of some ideas for making a new batch. What's your favourite recipe? Any flavour combinations I should try?

More recipes are over here

Monday, December 2, 2013

The one with the plum crumble

I love having my crumble and eating it, though I've never made one by myself before. People tell me how easy it is, and when ever the general consensus is that a dish is easy to make, my version will end up a terrible disaster. But, when craving a niece piece of crumble on a sunday afternoon and no one else around to make me some, I tried making one myself. It's based on a recipe by Nigella, but with walnuts instead of pecans and the addition of some spices. Also, Nigella first baked the plums a bit in the oven, before adding the topping. I skipped this part. I have to agree, a crumble is super easy to make, no disasters occurred (this time).

What you´ll need:

125 grams of (cold) butter
125 grams of cane sugar
125 grams of self-raising flower
50 grams of walnuts
a pinch of salt
cinnamon and cardamom, together half a teaspoon
plums, 6 big ones, 8 smaller ones

What you'll need to do:
Preheat the oven at 200 ˚C. Wash, destone and cut the plums into chunky parts, and add them to a buttered tin.

Make the crumble topping by mixing the flower, sugar, butter, salt, cinnamon and cardemom with your hands, until you get a crumble-y mixture like in the picture.

Chop the walnuts and add this to the topping.

Add this to the plums and bake for 25 to 30 minutes, until the topping gets a golden colour.

You can eat this crumble warm or cold, with or without a scoop of ice cream. If you don't want to make a whole crumble, you can also freeze the topping and use it when needed. Enjoy!