It’s Memorial Day or the 4th of July and you want to make a patriotic dessert, try our easy red white and blue popsicles recipe. Fun like our rainbow popsicles with juice or Gatorade, and there’s a cherry hidden inside too!
Aren’t these fun!! You can use a few things to make the red white and blue color but we chose to use things we had on hand. For the red we wanted to hide a surprise inside so there’s a maraschino cherry hidden inside this fun popsicle recipe. Now that is fun!! Here is how we made them. (affiliate links present)
If it is summertime you might want some festive treats to enjoy. Get your kids in the kitchen to help with this one because it’s a hoot. Adding a sweet cherry inside is a little like a treat they can dig out when they bit into it too.
How to Make 4th of July Popsicles
All you need is a popsicle mold, liquids in these colors like we used here and some imagination. You could use little Dixie cups too if that is all you have with wooden sticks! Kids love to help so get them in the kitchen with you and call it an edible craft. 😉
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You really could use any sort of liquid in these 3 colors that you wanted but we thought our choices worked out well. I use what we have at home and go from there. Colors can be enhanced with food coloring but typically I will use something like Gatorade that is already that shade.
Red White and Blue Popsicle Ingredients
- 1 jar maraschino and cherry juice
- 7-up or Sprite
- Blue powerade or Hawaiian punch (we used powerade – less sugar)
- Popsicle mold
For the red we used the cherry juice which was super yummy! We needed the cherries anyway so skip an extra item and use what you have I say. Put 1 cherry into the bottom of your popsicle mold along with enough cherry juice to almost cover it and put it in the freezer for at least an hour.
That is all you need to make homemade popsicles of all kinds at home. You can use 100% juice too like Naked variety. The trick to getting the layers to not mix is to freeze separately until hardened. Longer is better or else if it isn’t totally frozen the red will bleed into the white.
Another creamier version would be to make frozen yogurt popsicles like we did here. Use strawberry, blueberry and vanilla varieties and you’d be set!
How to Make Popsicles with Gatorade
When the red is frozen add some 7-up or Sprite but make sure there is enough room for the stick to go in and NOT touch the “white” layer, then freeze again for at least another hour. Lastly add your Powerade, Gatorade or Hawaiian punch for the blue and freeze. They should slide right out when they are done and they are really yummy (with a surprise inside too).
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Red White and Blue Popsicles
Equipment
- 1 popsicle mold used one with 8 holes and sticks included
Ingredients
- 1 jar maraschino cherries
- 2 c sprite, or 7 up, more or less depending on how large your mold is
- 2 c Gatorade, or powerade, blue color, more or less depending on mold size
Instructions
- For the red we used cherry juice as the first layer, Put 1 cherry (without stem) into the bottom of your popsicle mold along with enough cherry juice to almost cover it and put it in the freezer for 2 hours so it is hard.
- Take mold out and pour in 1/3 sprite or 7 up leaving enough space for the last 1/3 of the hole for the blue color. Freeze for 1-2 hours until hard.
- Pour in last blue Gatorade layer and then place plastic popsicle sticks inside and freeze for remaining 1-2 hours or until hard.
- Run popsicle mold under room temp. water, twist handles and pull out of the mold to enjoy.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
