A dye-free, sugar-free alternative to those Halloween candies! These healthy CANDY CORN FROZEN FRUIT POPS are sure to satisfy your kid's (or YOUR) sweet tooth!
Candy, candy, and more candy! It's a love/hate relationship, right? There is some candy that I absolutely love. Almond Joys are my #1 candy bar, and I can't get enough. It's the first thing I start rummaging for when my son comes back with a bag full of Halloween candy. Thankfully, he's always kind enough to give me at least a couple.
Once Halloween is over, after about a day of me trying to sneak his candy and letting him be a kid and have a few pieces of his own, I'm pretty much over it and ready to throw the entire trick-or-treat bag away while he's not looking.
No, I don't know what happened to your candy. You ate it all, right??
*shifty eyes*
So one candy that I truly do hate is candy corn. I like it at first. Like the first 5 pieces of waxy sugary corn. But after that, my teeth start to hurt and I regret the fact that I ate any at all and start worrying about the well-being of my digestive system.
But when it comes to the kiddo, he just can't get enough of those tri-colored candies. Kids are just so resilient to all the sugar!
Thankfully though, my son DOES love one thing more than candy, and that is popsicles. All year long. Even in the dead of winter. So when I proposed the idea of him getting a festive popsicle that looked just like candy corn, he was over the moon excited.
And I was thrilled with the fact that I didn't have to add any sugar or artificial coloring to make it delicious or appealing. It's all in the natural sweetener and coloring of the fruit.
This is one Halloween treat this mama can get behind!
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Healthy Candy Corn Frozen Fruit Pops
Ingredients
- 1 cup coconut milk
- ¼ cup agave nectar
- ½ cup plain greek yogurt
- 1 banana , peeled
- 1 cup pineapple chunks
- 2 oranges , peeled
- ½ cup mango pieces
Instructions
- In a blender, combine coconut milk, dairy-free yogurt, and agave until smooth.
- Pour about an inch of the mixture into popsicle molds. There will be some left over - save it for remaining layers. Put popsicle mold in freezer while preparing next 2 layers.
- Use ½ of what is left from the white layer and add oranges and mango. Blend well, pour in a glass and set aside.
- Use remaining white mixture, and add banana and pineapple. Blend well, pour in a glass until ready to layer.
- Once the first layer is slushy (don't freeze completely or you won't be able to get the popsicle stick in at the end!), pour the orange layer into the mold. Freeze again for 30 minutes.
- Top with yellow layer.
- Then place the popsicle sticks in and freeze until completely frozen.
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Ashli says
Those look and sound fabulous!!
Beautiful pictures too, BTW 🙂
Holly Waterfall says
thank you so much Ashli!! my son loves them and was thrilled that i said yes to them with no hesitation.