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These Homemade Strawberry Milk Popsicles are the perfect summer treat. This easy dessert recipe is made with fresh strawberries and milk, wholesome ingredients, so you can feel good about the kids snacking on them all summer long.
Homemade Strawberry Milk Popsicles
Nothing quite says summer like fresh fruit and popsicles. Combine them together and you have yourself the ultimate summer treat. My crew absolutely loves strawberries, so I decided we should make strawberry popsicles. And since we always have milk in the house, we made strawberry milk for our strawberry popsicles.
Have you ever made strawberry milk before? Back in the day my mom used to get syrup that we could add to our milk to make it pink and pretty and taste delicious, but you can actually make it at home with fresh strawberries in just a few minutes. Homemade always tastes better.
You need three simple ingredients for homemade strawberry milk:
Strawberries (fresh or frozen work fine)
Sugar
Milk
To make strawberry milk you simply:
Make your strawberry syrup by using strawberries and sugar
Allow your strawberry syrup to cool
Add the strawberry syrup to nice cold milk
Easy enough! But you came here today to make those yummy popsicles, so now that you know how to make strawberry milk let’s make our Strawberry Milk Popsicles.
To make your homemade strawberry milk pops you will need just two ingredients:
Strawberries
Strawberry milk
Frozen coconut (optional)
How to make homemade strawberry milk pops you simply:
Thinly slice strawberries and set them aside
Place strawberries into your favorite popsicle molds
If you are adding in the coconut, place that into popsicle molds (you’ll want fruit to fill the popsicle molds half way)
Pour strawberry milk into popsicle molds to fill
Freeze until ready to enjoy!
Now, here is how to make my homemade strawberry milk popsicles. Be sure to Print It and Pin It so that you can make them again and again.
Homemade Strawberry Milk Popsicles
Equipment
- Stove
- Popsicle Molds
Ingredients
Homemade Strawberry Milk
- 2 cups fresh strawberries you can also use frozen
- 4 tbsp sugar
- ½ cup water
- 2 cups milk
Homemade Strawberry Milk Popsicles
- 1 cup thinly sliced strawberries
- 2 cups strawberry milk
- ½ cup frozen coconut optional
Instructions
Homemade Strawberry Milk
- Wash and slice the strawberries, remove greens.
- Add strawberries, sugar and water into a saucepan over medium heat and simmer for about 10 minutes.
- Strawberry sauce will thicken slightly.
- Pour the strawberry mixture through a fine mesh strainer to remove all seeds if desired. Use a spoon to press the strawberries against the strainer, to make sure you are getting as much juice as you can.
- Allow the syrup to cool before adding in the milk. You can simply put it into the refrigerator for a few minutes while you prep your popsicles.
- When the syrup is cool, combine the milk and homemade strawberry syrup and stir gently.
Homemade Strawberry Milk Popsicles
- Get out your favorite popsicle molds. My tray had 8 and this recipe made all 8.
- Thinly slice strawberries.
- Fill the popsicle molds half way with the sliced strawberries.
- Add frozen coconut if desired.
- Pour strawberry milk into popsicle molds to fill. You will want to leave just a little bit of space since the will expand slightly when frozen.
- Place in freezer.
- Freeze for at least 4 hours or until your popsicles are ready.
- When you are ready to serve run molds under hot water for 20 seconds to loosen.
- Enjoy!
I hope you enjoy these Strawberry Milk Pops as much as we do!
Have you ever made strawberry milk before? How about homemade popsicles?
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