Fun Food: Soda Pop-Ups

This is a neat little activity with a unique flavor, tastes like a frozen cream soda. The kids will get a kick out of making their own creamy Popsicles!

Ingredients:

2 twelve ounce (3 cups) lemon-lime carbonated beverages
1 fourteen ounce can (1 1/4 cups) sweetened condensed milk
1/4 cup lemon juice
10 wooden Popsicle sticks

Directions:

1. In a bowl stir together carbonated beverage, sweetened condensed milk, and lemon juice.

2. Pour this mixture into 10 five-ounce disposable paper cups.

3. Cover each cup with aluminum foil. Make a small how in the foil with a knife and insert a wooden stick into the cup through the hole.

4. Freeze for four to six hours or until firm.

5. To serve: remove foil and tear off paper cup.

Yield: 10 pop ups.

Variations:

You can try any of your favorite carbonated beverages in place of the lemon-lime flavor. A strawberry soda made a really nice strawberry cream Popsicle at our house. An orange soda makes a good orange cream pop-up as well.

You can use plastic Popsicle molds just as well as the disposable paper ones. Simply un-mold using their directions.

I’ve also frozen this mixture in ice cube trays or candy molds to use in place of regular ice for party drinks. Pop a couple of frozen, flavored cubes into a glass of cold carbonated water for an interesting, and refreshing drink.

You can also substitute sugar-free sodas to remove some of the sugar from this snack.

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