I did something totally crazy this weekend and planned, tested and shot all of my recipes for the upcoming week. Spoiler alert: prepare yourself lotsa green goodies, starting with these tropical fruit avocado popsicles.
Can we have a moment of silence for the abundance of fresh fruit available at this time of year? And another for how cheap it all is? I picked up 8 avocados for less than 10 bucks at the grocery last week which is insaneeee. And I know they would have been even cheaper at the farmers’ market.
The only downside to this epic AF pricing is my tendency to go a bit overboard. I mean 8 avocados? What the eff do I need with 8 avocados? Especially when they’ll all invariably ripen at exactly the same time.
Well, to be honest, I had no idea when I bought them but the price was just too good to refuse. Obviously.
Luckily, there’s no shortage of avocado recipes hurtling around my brain at any point in time. So I decided to give a few of them a go this week including these tropical avocado popsicles for #IceCreamSundays.
Tropical Avocado Popsicles
Like most popsicles these avocado popsicles are pretty easy to make. All you need to do is blend your ingredients, pour into popsicle moulds, freeze and devour.
These popsicles are pretty forgiving and can be customized to suit your tastes, which is always good. To add the tropical fruit twist to my avocado popsicles I went with fresh pineapple, mango and kiwi. But peaches and nectaries would probably work really well here. Just be sure that all of your fruit is ripe and sweet.
I also originally tried these with coconut milk in place of coconut water but they were a little too rich and creamy for me. I much prefer icy popsicles. But feel free to use light coconut milk in place of the coconut water if you prefer.
And that’s it. Just a handful of ingredients and no added sugar and you can be cooling down this summer with these tropical avocado popsicles. Whether you live in the tropics or not.
If you make these tropical avocado popsicles, I’d love to hear what you think. Leave a comment and rate the recipe or take a pic and tag me @ExSloth on Instagram!
- 1 small avocado
- 1 cup chopped pineapple
- 1 cup chopped mango
- 1 kiwi chopped
- 1 cup coconut water
- 1 - 2 tbsp agave
- Nutiva Organic Coconut Manna for drizzling
- Add all ingredients to a blender and blend until smooth. Taste and adjust sweetness to suit
- Pour liquid into a popsicle molds, cover and insert craft sticks. I used two sticks per popicle but 1 is fine
- Freeze popsicles overnight or for at least 4 - 6 hours
- Run the molds under hot water before trying to remove the popsicles
- Drizzle with coconut butter if desired
- Store any leftovers in the freezer
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WHAT ABOUT YOU?
- What fresh fruit are you obsessing over this summer?
- What’s your favourite way to use avocados?
- Creamy popsicles or icy ones?
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These Popsicles look so yum! I’m loving the avocado.
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Oh, Giselle! I’m insanely in love with your photography. I literally just gawked at these ones for about 5 minutes – insane, girl!
These popsicles are brilliant, and I pinned them so that I can make them once we move! SO delicious, girl!
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Thanks Alexa! That’s honestly the best thing I’ve heard all day <3
YESSSS !!! Avocado in FULL FORCE!! <3 I adore this! 😛
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How fun! What a creative idea
Deborah @ Confessions of a mother runner recently posted…Pineapple Cantaloupe Carpacccio
What a brilliant idea to use avocado for popsicles! They look amazing!
Debbie recently posted…Amazing Adventures at Blogfest and IDEA World
I love recipes that have avocado and pineapple in them! and it’s so perfect for such a humid summer.
I would have never thought to put avocado in popsicles! Brilliant!
Kayla @ Blondes Have More Run recently posted…Blueberry Festival + Spartan Race
These look delicious! I bet the avocado makes these super creamy!
not an avocado fan, but obsessing over cantaloupe this summer. i will take any kind of popsicle in this summer heat!
glenneth recently posted…Wall Squat Challenge by Move It Monday
Oh heyy, it’s me REFRESHING. Love the added avocado, never would have thought of that in a pop!
Emily @Sinful Nutrition recently posted…Two-Ingredient Sweet Potato Ice Cream
Yes, yes, yes! One of our favorite smoothie bowl flavors! We are so late to the game with popsicles this year, last year at this point we had been making them daily! This year well we still have the original batch in the popsicle maker, fail! Now that we are back in town we have to whip some up while it’s still summer!
You had me at avocado! 🙂 🙂
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You are brilliant!! These are so perfect. Must make…after I get a popsicle mold.
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Try them in an ice cube tray! I didn’t get a popsicle mold till this year so my ice cube trays got a lot of use.
As with everything you make, these look fantastic!
Annmarie recently posted…Paleo Coconut Haystack Cookies
Giselle the popsicles look delicious. So many wonderful flavors.
Avocado in a popsicle is something I would have NEVER thought of. Now I want to give it a try!
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Great whole fruits Popsicle recipes! We love making homemade Popsicles all year round. Great treat for the kids and when they say “Can I have a Popsicle?”, the answer can be YES!
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Sadly, my husband is allergic to Pineapple. But these look so good. I clicked on some of your other popsicle recipes to try though!
Oh that’s too bad. But I highly recommend the fruit & rosemary one. That’s always a big hit and only calls for 3 ingredients 😀
These sound amazing!!! I love the combo of flavors, can’t wait to try them 🙂
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Whaaaat I just paid $2.49 for one avocado! 🙁 🙁
These popsicles look great – love the tropical flavours in them!
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I got them at FreshCo! They’re always pretty cheap but they’re never ripe enough. I lucked out with this batch tho.