Cherry Lime Ice Pops make a sweet summer treat! Filled with cherries and a touch of lime, only 4 ingredients!
Cherry Lime Ice Pops
Cherry Lime Ice PopsCherry is my favorite ice pop flavor! But the ice pops you get at the store are usually nothing more than red dye, artificial flavors and sugar. These homemade cherry pops are made with real ingredients and taste like real cherries! More fun summer treats are Lemon and Ginger Ice Pops, Pina Colada Ice Pops, Citrus Basil Mojito Ice Pops, and Peaches and Cream Popsicles.
I love the deep red color you get from using real cherries and the flavor is not that artificial cherry taste you get from those imitation flavored pops, it’s richer with a more intense cherry taste.
Pitting cherries can be a chore, so I highly recommend buying a cherry pitter (affil link) there are so many to choose from on Amazon, this is the one I have.
PS- You can find the popsicle molds on Amazon too! I used this mold, with regular popsicle sticks in the photos.
How To Make Cherry Ice Pops
More Ice Pops You might like:
- Turmeric Golden Milk Popsicles
- Citrus Basil Mojito Pops
- Coconut Mango Ice Pops
- Piña Colada Ice Pops
- Raspberry Coconut Chia Pudding Pops
Cherry Lime Ice Pops
Ingredients
- 1 lb cherries
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 3 tbsp fresh lime juice
Instructions
- Stem the cherries and remove the pits. See above for the cherry pitter I recommend.
- In a medium saucepan over medium heat, combine the cherries with the water, sugar, and lime juice, and cook until the cherries are very soft and cooked through, about 10-15 minutes.
- Remove from heat and let it cool to room temperature.
- Puree the cherries and their liquid and put the mixture through a fine sieve.
- Pour into ice pop molds and freeze at least 2 hours.
We picked cherries recently and used some for this recipe. They were so delicious, and the color is gorgeous. Both my husband and I loved them!
Cherry popsicles you buy in the store only have 40 cal and these have 122 👎
What was the sugar content of the store bought cherry popsicles? Just curious.
I didn’t have enough cherries so I made “berry” popsicles with blueberry and raspberries. I’m thinking they should be just as yummy! They’re freezing now. I’ll let you know.
How did they come out?
Can I use frozen cherries? If yes,do I still have to boil
them and should I thaw them out first before boiling?
Thank you
Worth the effort. I could lighten up on the sugar. My popsicle set is sailboat shape. These looked like red sails of luscious yum mines. Wish I could post a pic!
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I made the cherry lime popsicles this afternoon and they came out great! they tasted wonderful and the color was a beautiful shade of dark red. Thanks for the recipe.
I made these today and found that I also wasn't able to get much liquid when straining the mixture. I decided to just put everything in the popsicle molds. The popsicles were good, but were not that smooth since they had the fiber of the skin.
Perhaps too much water evaporated, add a little more to the blender, then run it through the sieve
These are great! In addition to being beautiful, they taste great and the texture is wonderful. Whole family loved them. I had a little left over after filling my popsicle molds so I froze some in a mini ice cube tray and put toothpicks in them. They inserted easily, even when the cubes were totally frozen. They were the cook's own secret treat. Shhhh….don't tell.