Ice Lollies {part one}

I’m back! Have you missed me? I am going to get back onto this regular blogging train, I am, I am. The time has come to get organised and no excuses.

To celebrate my return to the blogosphere I have teamed up with Indigo Herbs again. They contacted me and very kindly offered if I would like to try some of their fruit and vegetable powders.

There was only one catch – any recipes created using the powders could not be smoothies. Which I get. I mean, it is incredibly easy to throw powders into smoothies to give them an extra oomph, but I understand that sometimes you need something a little different.

Which is why I have come up with three different ice lolly recipes using three different powders. I am sharing two of them today with you and then the third will follow at the end of the week – along with a little giveaway maybe, shush, don’t tell anyone!

The weather in the UK has been summery of late, that is for sure. We even had a mini heatwave a couple of weeks ago, which quite frankly was way too hot for me. In my little part of the country the mercy tipped 40 degrees celsius on one day. Too hot, people, too hot. When you are not used to it.

I actually had that week off work and I am extremely glad that I did as cycling in that heat would have killed me (I try to cycle to work everyday, to work off some of the cake/chocolate/naughty nibbles, or alternatively to make myself feel less guilty about eating the cake/chocolate/naughty nibbles). Anyway.

Ice lollies. Easy to purchase from the shop but much more satisfying to make your own. Apart from when they won’t come out the mould. Tad frustrating (more about that later).

These lollies don’t take long to whip up and I have provided the ingredients in small quantities because when there are not many of you in a house, you don’t need a recipe for ice lollies that caters for feeding the five thousand. If you want/need to make more, simply multiply the ingredients and off you go.

The powders that I had to mess around with were strawberry, beetroot and . . . you’ll have to wait until Friday to find that out (unless you follow me on Instagram and then you may have had a clue). I did the usual upon opening the packets – sniff test, dip finger in it then lick it test – and they are exactly how you would expect strawberry and beetroot powders to smell and taste. Which means they taste of the things they are made from.

I have to say that the beetroot powder looks so velvety that I kind of wanted to stroke it, but I didn’t, because it will stain. And make a huge mess.

I have gone easy with the addition of the powders, but if you would like a more hefty hit then add more.

PS – and we are not going to mention the fact that when I bought this lolly mould I thought it would make lollies that looked a little like rockets, but when it came to photographing them, they look like something else that is most definitely not a rocket, although some men might like to think that they are . . . ahem.