How to Make Orange Yogurt Popsicles

This summer, serve your children and their friends a frozen treat that they will enjoy and that is also nourishing. Make your own orange yogurt Popsicles. Take them out of the freezer and send everyone outside to eat them in the yard. Don't forget to provide water to wash off the sticky fingers before letting them back in the house. This makes eight to 12 small Popsicles.

Things You'll Need

• 16 ounces vanilla yogurt
• 1 6 ounce can of frozen orange juice concentrate
• water
• 8 - 12 small waxed paper drinking cups
• 8-12 wooden Popsicle sticks (buy these in lots of 500 at school supply stores or craft stores)
• blender

Instructions

Set the Scene

1. Set the waxed paper drinking cups on a tray that will fit easily into your freezer. Clear out enough space in your freezer so you'll be able to set the tray flat. Otherwise the Popsicles may spill before they are frozen solid and that makes a terribly sticky mess to try to clean up.

2. Plug in the blender. Place the orange juice concentrate, the same amount of water (fill the empty juice can with water and then pour it in), and the vanilla yogurt into the blender. Put the lid securely on the blender. Turn it on "blend". When the ingredients are all combined, turn off the blender.

3. Pour the mixture into the cups leaving about an inch between the top of the liquid and the lip of the cup. Place the cups into the freezer. Wait about a half hour. Then remove the partially frozen orange yogurt Popsicles from the freezer. Insert one Popsicle stick into each cup. Put the stick into the center and poke it all the way to the bottom of the cup. This will support the frozen Popsicle while it is being eaten. If the sticks fall over, the Popsicles need some more time in the freezer. The Popsicle sticks need to stick straight up out of the middle of the cup.

4. Take the fully frozen orange yogurt Popsicles off the tray once they are solid. Put them into a large air tight zip closing freezer bag. Close the bag and then put it back into the freezer until you are ready to serve them.

Tips & Warnings

• Experiment with other flavors. Change the type of juice. Change the flavor of yogurt.

• Use store bought Popsicle molds if you have them.