Peach Passion Pops
Oh heeeeeey, happy #PopsicleWeek! Popsicle Week (hashtag optional) is the brainchild of Billy from Wit & Vinegar, and if you’re thinking that it sounds like a week all about popsicle recipes, you’re absolutely right. We food bloggers are a literal bunch.
I first heard about Popsicle Week last year when my Feedly was suddenly swarming with a bunch of popsicle recipes from my favorite bloggers, and at first I was like, “What a weird coincidence, everyone posting popsicles all at once! Did I miss the memo? HAR HAR HA….oh wait, there really was a memo. Whoops.” And right then and there, I signed up to participate for this year. So, major snaps to Billy for coordinating the popsicle madness, and you can see all the recipes, and sign up for next year, on his Popsicle Week page here!
I hardly ever make popsicles, and I don’t know why that is. I love frozen desserts. I love food on sticks. I love recipes that require zero cooking and minimal assembly. Popsicles are the perfect summer food, and I think we should all lobby to have them put at the base of the food pyramid, at least while the weather is beastly.
My original intention was to do apricot-pistachio popsicles, because I’m having a love affair with apricots right now and I don’t care who knows it. (TM George Bluth). But Trader Joe’s was all out of apricots, and rather than drive 5 more minutes out of my way, I switched to peach popsicles instead. (It’s possible my apricot love isn’t as strong as I’m claiming it is.)
Rather than do straight peach popsicles, I blended the peaches with passion fruit puree, to make a sweet-tart popsicle with a tropical flavor and lots of great texture from little chunks of peaches. If you’re more of a smooth popsicle person you can definitely blend them until silky smooth, but I like a little bit of chew in my pops, so the peach chunks were the perfect addition for me.
And hey, this wouldn’t be SugarHero without some gratuitous chocolate, right? I dipped a few of the popsicles in dark chocolate and covered them with a generous sprinkling of chopped pistachios. It changed the nature of the popsicles from “mostly healthy, with a bit o’ sugar” to “full-on dessert,” but that isn’t exactly an insult, right? You could dip just a few of the pops, and have an option for everyone! I also think this would be great with white chocolate—one of the few times I’ve uttered that sentence. Something about tart peach-passion fruit and really sweet white chocolate sounds so dreamy!
Happy Popsicle Week–I hope you’re celebrating in style!
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