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Creamy Lime Popsicles

July 10, 2014

These creamy lime popsicles are easy and refreshing. They’re a perfect frozen summer treat and only take a few minutes to throw together!
This creamy lime popsicles are easy and refreshing. They're a perfect frozen summer treat and only take a few minutes to throw together! | recipe from Chattavore.com
Several years ago, a friend introduced me to a drink she and her husband had at a restaurant, called “Brazilian Lemonade”. I think the correct spelling might be limonade because this drink is made with limes, not lemons. Specifically whole limes, pureed in a blender with sweetened condensed milk, sugar, and water then strained.
This creamy lime popsicles are easy and refreshing. They're a perfect frozen summer treat and only take a few minutes to throw together! | recipe from Chattavore.com
As I was trying to think of some great frozen desserts to make this summer, that drink came to mind. I remember turning up glass after glass of it and thinking it was one of the best things I’d ever had to drink. It seemed like it would be a perfect popsicle, so I set out to make it such.
This creamy lime popsicles are easy and refreshing. They're a perfect frozen summer treat and only take a few minutes to throw together! | recipe from Chattavore.com
This creamy lime popsicles are easy and refreshing. They're a perfect frozen summer treat and only take a few minutes to throw together! | recipe from Chattavore.com
Turns out creamy lime popsicles weren’t so simple as all that. I started by following the basic recipe and freezing it in my popsicle molds. Big no. They were terrible. So bitter I couldn’t get past the first bite.
This creamy lime popsicles are easy and refreshing. They're a perfect frozen summer treat and only take a few minutes to throw together! | recipe from Chattavore.com
So, I melted all the lime popsicles down the drain and made another batch, this time adding a ton more sugar and quite a bit more sweetened condensed milk, but still pureeing the limes, rind and all, and straining the mixture before freezing. The result? A perfect texture and still a terrible, bitter taste. In fact, the experience made me question why I ever liked the drink in the first place; the pith under the rind was clearly making the mixture incredibly bitter. Another batch down the drain-literally.
This creamy lime popsicles are easy and refreshing. They're a perfect frozen summer treat and only take a few minutes to throw together! | recipe from Chattavore.com
Finally, I decided to skip the pureeing process, opting instead to use more limes for juice and using the zest-but not the pith!-from two of them. I kept all the sugar. It’s a lot of sugar, but I realized that sugar is the secret to perfect popsicle texture because it keeps the mixture from freezing solid…which means that it doesn’t get all icy when you’re trying to eat it (and I have some work to do to fix up the popsicle recipes that I made up last summer!). By the way, alcohol does the same thing….so if you are so inclined you could replace a little of the water here with some tequila for a margarita “poptail” (I wouldn’t do too much, though, or the texture will be negatively impacted).

For a great summer treat, try these creamy lime popsicles!
This creamy lime popsicles are easy and refreshing. They're a perfect frozen summer treat and only take a few minutes to throw together! | recipe from Chattavore.com

Mary

Yield: 10 servings

Limeade Popsicles

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10 minTotal Time:

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Ingredients

  • juice of 4 limes
  • zest of 2 limes
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1?2 cup sweetened condensed milk
  • 2 cups water

Instructions

  1. Whisk together the lime juice and zest, sugar, and sweetened condensed milk until the sugar is dissolved.
  2. Whisk the water into the mixture until completely combined.
  3. Pour the mixture into popsicle molds and freeze for several hours. Remove from the mold and quickly transfer any popsicles you do not eat/serve back to a freezer bag to store.

Notes

Prep time does not include freezing time.

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This creamy lime popsicles are easy and refreshing. They're a perfect frozen summer treat and only take a few minutes to throw together! | recipe from Chattavore.com
This creamy lime popsicles are easy and refreshing. They're a perfect frozen summer treat and only take a few minutes to throw together! | recipe from Chattavore.com

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Comments

  1. huntfortheverybest says

    July 11, 2014 at 9:26 am

    these sound soo good!
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  2. Stormy says

    August 5, 2020 at 10:57 am

    Can I omit condensed milk for coconut milk?
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    • Mary // Chattavore says

      August 5, 2020 at 11:02 am

      Hey, Stormy. I haven’t tested this recipe with coconut milk so I can’t answer this exactly. I would think that coconut milk would work, but you would need to add some sweetener to it. I would suggest cooking the coconut milk with sugar, honey, or whatever sweetener you choose in order to dissolve the sweetener. You would need to test the amounts, though, and it will change the texture of the popsicles. I think given a little experimentation it would be delicious, though!
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