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.
