Where have all the popsicles gone?
I’ve been looking all summer for popsicle-making containers, and outside of one lucky break in Seattle where I should have bought more than one set, I’m coming up with zip. There *has* to be someplace in Portland that carries them. Doesn’t anyone make their own popsicles anymore?
Sure, Kitchen Kaboodle, has a few hoity-toity numbers, but I’m thinking simple, cheap plastic things where I won’t be overly upset if my dishwasher decides to eat them. Checked the Dollar Store, Fred Meyer, Rite-Aid, and a few other places, but no luck. Nothing even came close, outside of doing the old Dixie Cup and flat wooden stick bit.
I’ve had a craving for pudding pops lately, and rumor has it that they’re back. Until I can find a box of my own (and since I’m trying to follow one of those notorious LC diets) this is what I’ve been making for a cool treat.
Ingredients
1 box sugar free pudding
1 box soft tofu
1/4 cup 1/2 & 1/2
3 TB Splenda (or other sugar substitute)
Directions
Combine all ingredients with a hand mixer until smooth and creamy. Spoon into freezer molds and chill until solid. Enjoy!
Flavor Variations
Add one of the following:
- dash of cinnamon
- several tablespoons of peanut butter
- finely chopped nuts
- vanilla or almond extract
They are wickedly easy to make, and really tasty. I think with the tofu added they might even be considered sort of good for you.
I know this may not be the most appropriate solution given your complete dislike of malls, but there is a Tupperware kiosk in the middle of Mall 205 that carries the popsicle thingies you’re talking about.
Oh yea…Even closer…Lloyd Center has one such store as well. Good call!
See, I have popsicle holders – but no room in my freezer for them, alas.
We should work out a deal of sorts, heh.
(I had mine before I got to Portland, but I think I got them at the grocery store or at a place like a Fred Meyer…)
I found a lot of them at Smiths down here in Vegas. But I guess with the cost of a plane ticket, they wouldn’t be so cheap.
Another great dessert, if you haven’t tried it:
1/2 cup Ricotta Cheese
1 tsp Vanilla
1 packet of Splenda
Kinda like cheesecake without the crust. You can also add some unsweetened cocoa and dark chocolate chips, or almonds extract and almond slivers, or lemon juice. All sorts of ideas. And this is from phase one of South Beach so (almost) NO CARBS!!
I found some really cool ones for only one dollar at the dollar tree store…. fun summer treats will come if I can only figure out how to get the suckers out of the containers once their frozen… Any tips?