Making ice blocks at home reduces plastic packaging waste and means you can make healthy ice block recipes with nothing artificial and less sugar.
For home made ice blocks that look just like paddle pops, we have these top quality stainless steel homemade ice block moulds. The paddle pop sticks can be washed and re-used, and you can buy replacement sticks at Biome or elsewhere.
You'll be making a batch of these Mango, Coconut & Lime Ice Blocks at home in no time thanks to Well Nourished (mango ice blocks pictured above).
Healthy Home Made Ice Blocks Recipe
Ingredients:
2 fresh mangoes
Juice and zest of one lime
½ cup canned coconut milk (or Ulu Hye Almond Mylk)
½ cup cauliflower raw florets, roughly chopped
¼ tsp ground turmeric
1 tsp vanilla - powder, extract or essence
1-2 tbsp rice malt syrup, honey or maple syrup (optional)
Method:
Place all of your ingredients into a high-speed blender and process until smooth and creamy.
Adjust the sweetener to suit depending upon how ripe and sweet the mangoes are.
Pour into ice block moulds and freeze until solid.
Home made fruit ice block ideas
On community on Instagram shared loads of homemade fruit ice blocks:
Kiwi fruit and banana
Coconut water and lime
Pina Colada (pineapple and coconut mylk)
Honey lemongrass
Watermelon and mint kefir
Yoghurt and strawberry
Home made milk ice blocks
Almond chai
Almond, banana and cacao
Peppermint, coconut cream and cashew
Yoghurt and rockmelon
Raspberries, coconut milk and cashews
Cacao, oat milk, peanut butter, banana, maple and cinnamon
With any recipe you can switch dairy milk and plant-based milks; or blend in to the mix frozen banana or avocado, which makes the icy pole super creamy.
For nut milks, we recommend the Ulu Hye Nut Mylk bases that allow you to make additive-free mylk at home for less cost than the Tetra Pak variety.
Learn more about making your own nut milk here
Sugar free ice block recipes with hidden veggies
We hope you now have more confidence with how to make ice blocks at home.
For fructose sugar free ice blocks, use rice malt syrup and leave out any fruit.
The Mango recipe at the start has sneaky cauliflower if you missed that!
Another tasty combo is Beetroot, ginger and carrot.
Well Nourished has a Mint Choc Chip Ice Block Recipe here (pictured) made with spinach, avocado, coconut milk, rice malt syrup, cacao nibs or chocolate bits, and food grade peppermint oil.
Georgia of Well Nourished gives the advice to taste and adjust as you go, but remember that the flavour intensifies and is much more delicious when the mixture is frozen.
Find more variety of ice block moulds to buy at Biome.
Ice block images are copyright to Well Nourished www.wellnourished.com.au
