Not cake, but ice.
Two weekends ago when I spent the afternoon judging for Hands On Atlanta, we all had a special treat. During the event, the King of Pops was on site selling his handcrafted popsicles. Usually he’s pushing his cute cart around the streets of Atlanta, but instead he was kicking it inside with us for the event. I was super-excited because I had already heard his story a few weeks before when a friend ran into him at the local farmer’s market. He was buying gobs of strawberries. So many, it prompted her to ask what the heck he was going to do with all of them. Then he handed her his card in the shape of a popsicle. Turns out he’s the King of Pops.
When she told me about meeting him, I decided I was going to track down his cart one day to try some of his icey pops. Luckily, that Saturday, all I had to do was turn around and there he was.
Say Hi. This is Steven. The King of Pops.
Follow him on Twitter if you’re in Atlanta and you can keep up with his flavors and where he’ll be next. He was also featured just yesterday on CNN. Check him out here.
I had the Blackberry Mojito – YUM – but I’m still hitting myself for not trying the Chocolate Sea Salt, too.
You know, I think the only kind I’ve ever made myself are the ones you buy at the grocery store. You know the flavored water kind in those long plastic tubes.
Yeah, those.
So, I decided I wanted to make my own handcrafted popsicles with real fruit.
I just used some paper candy cups I had on hand and wooden popsicle sticks to play with.
It’s really easy to make your own.
Pick a fruit. 2 cups strawberries in this case. Hull and half them.
Throw them in a food processor with 1 Tablespoon super fine sugar, 1 teaspoon lemon juice and a pinch of salt.
Then blend it all together until completely smooth.
Pour and freeze.
These were layered with yogurt in between the strawberry. They were pretty tasty and the perfect size for me.
The recipe came from the book, Ice Pops which has tons more treats like these.
And because Steven can’t show up to everyone’s house with his cart filled with handcrafted popsicles, here’s a chance to win your own Quick Popsicle Maker for fast freezing fun…
…along with the book, too.
Enter for a chance to win:
Zoku Quick Popsicle Maker and Ice Pops book
Just leave a comment on this post and tell me your favorite fruit flavor.
Deadline to enter is Tuesday, July, 6th at 5:00 pm ET. Sorry, Time’s Up! Winner Announced Below.
One winner will be chosen at random and announced sometime Tuesday evening.
P.S. Giveaway purchased and sponsored by me, but you can find the book and Zoku pop maker at Williams-Sonoma.
Good luck and stay cool!
And the winner is… #4035. Congrats Marta. You get the Ice Pops book and Zoku Pop Maker. Now you can make your own Raspberry Lime Pops.
Next… I had a treat in my inbox today. Statistician Don… you know Pioneer Woman’s Statistician Don? The numbers guy?
Well, his wife told him about the giveaway I was having and he took time out to pull together these numbers for me. Then I made a little bar chart for you guys from all his hard work. Check out your favorite fruits.
Thanks Don! You’re the sweetest.
Blueberry, raspberry, blackberry, blueberry, strawberry, cranberry and all of the rest. I just love berry flavours.
Hands down lime
strawberry. you can’t go wrong with strawberry.
strawberry nanner!!…oh and throw in some rhubarb in there too…is rhubarb fruit? lol
Always a fan of brambles: blackberries, raspberries, black raspberries. Yum!
hmmmmm…….hard to pick a favorite…but I guess I could say strawberry with lime. YUM!
what about some ‘piña colada’ popsicle flavor?
delicioso!!!! :)
Fresh raspberry is so good right now. That would be great!
With the 42 degres Celsius here in quebec right now, thos popsible would just a delight!
My favorite is cherry! And making my own fruit pops looks like so much fun!
I love lemon or maybe even strawberry lemonade. Yum!
Orange. I love orange flavored things! I just discovered your blog and I want to share with you how much I love it! But I am afraid that I will have to start buying my clothes bigger because I want to (and will have to) bake more goodies! Thanks for sharing all your wonderful treats!
It is going to be in the 90s all week! Ice pops would be a great treat!!!!!!!!
I love apple… but lemon is great too. I like banana flavoring, but it tastes nothing like real bananas! I love popsicles, and it would be great to win!
Lemon is my favorite fruit flavour.
Popsicles sound nummy right about now.
Watermelon! Perfect for summertime.
Passionfruit…Mmmmm…
Strawberry is number one. Peach is a close 2nd.
WATERMELON for sure!
I love orange popsicles but will eat any flavor. Such a cool treat for the hot south. These pops are very interesting. Would love to try them.
My mom used to make them by simply pouring orange juice into the containers and feezing them. Still my favorite because it takes me back.
I like papaya with cantaloupe. I live where it’s super hot all summer. Trying these would be fun.
You can never go wrong with strawberry
STRAWBERRIES!
It is so painfully hot here in my part of Canada right now! I would love to be able to share a popsicle adventure with my son!
Coconut or Mango! =)
raspberry!
My favorite flavor is KIWI!!! I remember never trying the fruit because I thought it looked funny. Then my grandparents MADE me try it and I was hooked! Delish! :)
Mango!!
yummy! can’t wait to try! would absolutely LOVE to win!!!
Mango…or maybe mango-orange… or mango-orange-banana… now I’m hungry…
I know I’m too late to win, but I love Ice pops..the ones hershey icecream used to make..i swear they must have been 2 feet long! Boy, they were AMAZING!
fresh georgia peach sounds fabulous for the summer
Strawberry is my favorite
I hope I win this book I never win anything so Let’s try Ans see if my luck has improved
I am so glad you are sharing all these recipes with us
My favorite would definately have to be Strawberry Mango (with fresh fruit of course!)
cantalope!!!!!!!
strawberry + pineapple. Something about the combination. But if I have to just a single fruit flavor, strangely enough it would have to be lime.
My favorite fruit? Can’t pick just one, depends on the season and my mood. I just finished a slice of apricot tart, and I’ve been craving peach ice cream.
Cherry!
Raspberry or Strawberry or Cherry or Mango or… oh gosh, they’re all so yummy.
It depends on the day, but I really love watermelon and peach. Yummy!
There’s too many to choose from, but if I have to pick one I would have to go with Strawberry. =)
Peach!
Berries! Berries! Berries!! Who can pick just one? They are all yummy!!!!!
Me! Me!
We don’t have air conditioning–so ice pops are a necessity!
strawberry or peach!!!!!!!
watermelon with mint!
Watermelon… or banana. And I love fudge Bombsticks!
This looks tasty and pretty easy!
My favorite fruit flavor is lemon. And lime!
Lime!
My favorite fruit flavor has to be black cherry. My little niece and nephews would love this pop maker! I would definitely be the favorite aunt with one of these around :)
GRAPE!
Those look delish!
I am going to have to say that Tiger’s Blood would be my favorite flavor, also known as strawberry coconut.
Or lemon, lemon is the best.
Watermelon!
RASPBERRY!!
RASPBERRIES , hands down. although I do love peaches blackberries , strawberries, watermelon, kiwi, apples pears, and on and on!!
Strawberry is my fave!
Mango all the way!
Banana! Yummy
hmm, my fav fruit flavor.. ORANGE!! Or anything citrus. I love citrus :)
Strawberry Lemonade!
I love coconut popsicles; SO yummy!
Lime, especially in the summer. I just finished a lime popsicle about 15 minutes ago, actually!
Mmmm, banana!!
Mango! Yum:)
Orange-Mango. Nothing better than a homemade popsicle on a hot summer day!
I love strawberry!
I love pineapple and basil together! Yum!!!!
I’m torn between strawberry and Pineapple
I love mango & strawberry(:
Ok, so it’s not a fruit, but my favorite lately are Sweet Tea Pops. Just did a little feature on my blog, Sweet Iced Tea (www.sweeticedtea.net)… have a looksee!
http://sweeticedtea.wordpress.com/2010/06/18/tea-pops/
My boys have loved homemade blueberry lemonade pops at our house this summer! My favorite, though, is making wild berry zinger tea popsicles. Yum!
Raspberry! I leave her every once in a while for brief flings with fruits such as lime, grapefruit, or cherry … but I always come back!
I love Watermelon!!!
Raspberry. Definitely raspberry. No sugar needed!
I made a kiwi lime pop once that was awesome.
I was JUST looking at this in the William Sanoma magazine! I am going to go old fashioned and say strawberry but I’ve never met a popsicle I didn’t like. At least I dont think so.
Ooh, definitely citrus pomegranate.
I am just obsessed with pomegranate right now…I have been for awhile now. Gotta love it. (but I would love love love to have tried the Chocolate Sea Salt too!)
My favorite flavor is strawberry, but I’d love to do a strawberry-basil lemonade one! Yummy!
Definitley Strawberry!
my daughter and I love making popsicles together! We usually freeze the leftovers from our smoothies, but for a really special treat we’ll make pudding and then freeze it in our molds. Yum!
Lemonade would be awesome, but can never pass up strawberry. I had a watermelon snowcone the other day and it was very tasty.
my favorite fruits are cold, straight from the fridge strawberries and watermelon…
My favorite fruit flavor is lime!
Watermelon would be great!
My favorite fruit would have to be mango but strawberry comes in at a close second.
I love mangos the best, but I also love raspberries. I have a ton of favourites actually, which isn’t a bad thing to be addicted to. ;)
Thanks for the chance to win!
Raspberry is my favorite.
I love Mango-flavored anything!
I love cantaloupe pops. Coconut is good too!
Watermelon or Strawberry-Kiwi….yummy!!!
Strawberry, strawberry lemonade, strawberry chocolate and would love to try a lot more with my 3 little boys!
mango for sure!
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i absolutely love banana!
Technically I’d say fudge pop. But if I have to go fruit, any berry flavor.
i absolutely love kiwi!
I’m a sucker for lemon or lime frozen pops. Or lemon-lime.
Oh, they look very good. there are so many fruits i like mango seems to be my new favorite though. It is just a pain to cut the darn things
My favorite fruit is raspberry. Or blackberry. Or blueberry. Or strawberry. Or any combination of those.
It is a toss-up between strawberry and grape
Definitely strawberry
Strawberry, yum! Yours look delicious!!
Orange, pineapple, or fudgesicles…yum!
Mmmm.. strawberry by far!
strawberry-kiwi
Strawberry! Blackberry Mojito sounds great though! Hmmm…maybe margarita? yumm!
hmm…so hard to choose a favorite flavor, i like lemon or lime mixes like raspberry or strawberry although chocolate would be pretty good too….usually we just freeze yogurt tubes for a healthier freezie.
chocolate!!!
Strawberry, of course :)
Absolutely amazing :P
Anything with Lemonade! YUM!
So cool! My fav would be anything with a peach flavor!
Strawberry Kiwi!!!
Yum… my favorite would be raspberry. Or maybe chocolate pudding pops!
strawberry-kiwi or mango!!
Red raspberries always take me back to picking them off my grandfathers bushes.
strawberry! your pops were soo cute!
I love rasberry :o) I have been eyeing this popsicle maker all summer, I hope I win :o)
My favorite fruit flavor is peach! YUM!
I love mango popsicles! sooooo good, would love to make them!
Watermelon, or Cherry! Although that Chocolate Sea Salt he had on the list sounded great!
I can always go for strawberry!!
grape and blackberry have always been my favorite. I love making yogurt pops for my kids and have frozen juice on occasion, btu I’d love to dive into a more “sophisticated” and funw ay of making icy pops!
I love strawberries!! Yum! Homemade ice pops sound fun!
The ice pops look incredible! I’d first say strawberry’s my favorite, though (since I don’t live in Atlanta) I’m going to have to give the mandarin basil combo a try. The cups are a perfect idea, too :)
strawberry!!!
Favorite flavor of all time? Pineapple coconut (pina colada). Delicious!
Strawberries!!!!!!
My favorite ice pop is the Banana flavor froze fruit… but you can’t find them anywhere anymore!!!!
Lately I’ve made homemade pops with watermelon in small dixie cups with spoons – I didn’t even have proper sticks, but the kids liked them all the same!
My favorite would have to be mango!
Strawberry and peach!
Strawberries, lemon, watermelon … oh god, I can’t choose. Love them all!
I think the strawberry layered with yogurt looks amazing! I’d love to win and make these cool treats for our next lake trip!
Right now I love anything Mojito (although lime rickey is good too).
granny smith pops are fantastic! hubby prefers lemon… perfect treat/ snack or even lunch for this weather…
Lemon – yum!
I love cherry flavour, the best thing in the summer is a nice cold treat!
Avocado! no wait coconut! In the Philippines avocado is treated more like a dessert type of fruit rather than a savory. Boy is it ever yummy both ways :) mmmm….
Banana! Yummy!
Strawberry.
ORANGE JUICE..HANDS DOWN…I FREEZE THEM IN ICE CUBE TRAYS AND JUST CRUNCH!
Pineapple!
maybe it’s boring…
but I love strawberry-love it!
King of Pops has such a cool gig! I’d love to make pops myself – I especially crave them now that I’m pregnant. My favorite flavor is and always has been raspberry! :)
My favorite fruit flavor is banana. The Zoku maker looks really cool.
I love your blog. Especially the pictures.
kiwi!
Cherry!
Watermelon!
Grape! Yum!
Strawberry, for sure! Classic and perfect.
Strawberry of course……….but blueberry comes in a close second.
Mango!
Apple is my favorite. Yum!
my favorite flavor is strawberry. Not too original, I know, but I just LOVE it!
Raspberry!!!
Mango!!
Wow. So fun for summer entertaining. Thanks for the opportunity to win.
Mango!
Every BERRY flavor!!! loveeeee it!!
Pineapple!! Those flavours from the King of Pops all look lush though!
for me, nothing beats classic lemon. love it in EVERYTHING!
coconut!! :)
My favorite is Cherry Vanilla!
I’d have to try strawberry …and lemon-lime …and peach ….and kiwi …watermelon …cherry …grape …this may just take all summer to decide my absolute favorite!
Definitely blueberries.
I love raspberry lime and strawberry, but my all-time favorite popsicle flavor is root beer. So tasty!!!
Strawberry, of course!!
I love anything mango flavored!!
My favorite by far is orange…I love orange in anything. Actually any citrus.
There is nothing like popsicles for this summer heat! These look amazing
those are so adorable and look delicious.
I love mango and pinapple!
Can’t wait to try to make some. Love to try strawberry lemonade.
Those are so cute! They look yummy!
I’ve recently discovered just how much I love mango; i think a mango popsicle would be delicious!
Mmmm Pineapple!
I definitely enjoy the berry flavors (especially blueberry and raspberry) and I love it when there’s a little bit of creamy vanilla flavor thrown in as well. Yum!
Mango! Mmm, or rasberry, or banana! So many choices!!
Raspberry, final answer!
Pineapple…gimme real pineapple and I’m done. :)
I love love love peach! That is the only flavor of yogurt I get.
Cherry! Not the fake artificial cherry flavor, but the real deal!
Yes, please!! This would make the Arizona summer more tolerable. I am thinking Lemon Italian ice, Chocolate, Orange Cream….oh, the possibilities are endless!!
I LOVE raspberry lime. So cool and refreshing and yummy.
Cherry!!
Key Lime at the moment
I would love to make lime pops!
Pineapple or mango would be divine right about now.
Raspberry & Lime
I guess lime is a favorite flavor of mine, so perhaps a lemon-lime popsicle or a cherry-lime popsicle would be delish!
Pineapple!
Pineapple! I’ve been eyeing these at Williams-Sonoma!
I’m a sucker for strawberry-kiwi!
green apple and strawberry
Raspberry and thus, I LOVE July here in the northwest.
strawberry lemonade for me!!!!
Lime, lime and lime! :)