How to escape from the summer heat, stuffiness and thirst? There is a simple solution: make fruit ice. The recipe for this cold treat is so simple that even a baby can cope with it, and everyone will like this ice cream. In addition, adding various fruits and berries to it, you can get the most varied tastes of desserts, full of various vitamins.
Orange and Strawberry Fruit Ice
An excellent treat for children and adults, which is easy to prepare at home. The sweetness of strawberries and citrus notes of orange will give freshness, coolness and a charge of healthy vitamins in summer.
Ingredients:
- a glass of strawberries;
- two glasses of orange juice;
- a glass of vanilla yogurt;
- two tablespoons of granulated sugar.
Cooking
Beat with orange juice, yogurt and washed and dried strawberries with a blender. By the way, several berries can be cut into small pieces and added to the resulting puree, then fruit ice will turn out with pieces of fresh strawberries. Arrange the prepared mixture in tins, set wooden sticks and put in the freezer for at least three to four hours.
Blueberry Yogurt Fruit Ice
A beautiful and healthy two-color dessert will pleasantly surprise and delight the whole family. To prepare this treat, both frozen and fresh berries are suitable, and yogurt will add tenderness to the finished treat.
Ingredients:
- 80 grams of blueberries;
- 50 grams of blueberry yogurt (1.5-2% fat);
- 150 grams of yogurt without filler (1.5-2% fat);
- a quarter teaspoon of vanilla sugar;
- half a glass of water;
- a teaspoon of granulated sugar.
Cooking
To prepare the lilac layer, mix blueberries, blueberry yogurt and a quarter cup of water with a blender. For the white layer - yogurt without filler, granulated sugar, vanilla sugar and the remaining water. Fill the ice cream containers with the prepared mixture by about half (fill in the lilac layer in the first part of the cups and white in the rest). Put the molds in the freezer for half an hour. Take out glasses, insert ice cream sticks into frozen yogurt and pour in a mixture of a different color. Put it in the freezer again and wait 3-4 hours. After this time, your favorite treat is ready!
Useful Tips
Whatever fruit ice recipe you choose, there are a few general tips that work with any of them:
- without special containers for ice cream, you can use yogurt cups, small plastic cups and even cookie cutters to freeze ice by inserting toothpicks into them (such cubes are very convenient to add to tea or just to water to cool and add taste and aroma);
- just leaving cooked mashed potatoes in the forms in the freezer, you will get a fruit icicle. If during the freezing periodically stir the contents, then there will be a fruit sorbet;
- to easily get the cooked dessert out of the mold, you need to hold it under a stream of cold water for 30 seconds;
- to make softer fruit ice, one of the stabilizers should be added to it - starch or gelatin.