Jane’s Sweets & Baking Journal -- http://janessweets.blogspot.com -- July 2010

Homemade Mango Strawberry Popsicles

(This is an original recipe, not adapted from any other source.)

Have your popsicle molds, and the wooden sticks, ready and standing by. This recipe makes about four cups worth of liquid to pour into them. My popsicle mold makes 10 standard size pops.

2 medium size mangoes, completely ripe but not too soft; peeled, cut off the pit, and cut into medium-size chunks (about 2 cups of pieces)

1 cup clean strawberry pieces, halved

3/4 cup clean strawberry pieces, chopped into small pieces

honey, to taste (I used 4 Tbsp. of typical clover honey)

1/4 cup Greek style yogurt (I used the higher fat type; use low, though, if you prefer)

In the large bowl of your food processor, puree all of the mango and the 1 cup of halved strawberry pieces until quite smooth and free of large lumps. Add in the yogurt, and pulse for a moment just to combine. Add in the honey to taste; add as much as you prefer to get the desired sweetness.

Pour the mixture into the molds, scattering in pieces of the small-chopped strawberries as you pour so they'll be distributed throughout each bar.

Put the sticks in (the wooden sticks for my mold have to be soaked in water for an hour prior to being stuck into the popsicle liquid), and freeze for at least one hour, until completely solid. To get the frozen pops out of my mold, I run it under warm water for several seconds, remove the metal top, and then firmly pull up on the sticks. It works pretty well.