Healthy Raspberry Pops

It’s no secret that grandparents love spoiling their grandchildren. You may even look at your parents sometimes and think, “Where was this when I was a kid?” However, some of their indulgences may be ruining your waistline. For example, in our house, the grandparents are always sending treats and candies home with us for the kids. It is a super sweet gesture that is greatly appreciated by the kiddos. On the other hand, I regulate how many sweets our kids get so hubs usually eats a good chunk of the sweets sent home. Grandma recently sent a box of push-pops home with us and, of course, the kids loved them! These were the top request whenever allowed to have a treat or dessert. With summer coming up I wanted to come up with a cool treat that I wouldn’t feel guilty about letting them have (or about indulging in myself) so I came up with these ridiculously easy healthy raspberry pops. These seriously take 2 ingredients, freeze, and you’re done!

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Here is a cool treat that you won't feel guilty about eating! These ridiculously easy healthy raspberry pops are the perfect sweet-tooth indulgence.

Also, you don’t have to have any fancy appliances to do this.  I don’t own an electric mixer of any kind (this is not true anymore since I received a KitchenAid stand mixer for Christmas! Yay!) or a food processor.  I do have ice pop molds, but you don’t even have to have those.  You can use paper cups, ice cube trays, or whatever you have handy.  Don’t let a lack of modern conveniences keep you from making this delicious treat.

 

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Here is a cool treat that you won't feel guilty about eating! These ridiculously easy healthy raspberry pops are the perfect sweet-tooth indulgence.

Ingredients

Step 1

Blend all of the raspberries in your blender until liquefied. I used the smoothie setting on mine.

Note:

  • If you don’t have a blender you can totally mash up the raspberries by hand using a ladle and a bowl. You won’t get as smooth of a consistency but the pops will still be super tasty!

Step 2

Add your yogurt to the blender and continue to pulse until well mixed.

Note:

  • Again, if you don’t have a blender, no worries! Simply mix well in a bowl using a wooden spoon.

 

Here is a cool treat that you won't feel guilty about eating! These ridiculously easy healthy raspberry pops are the perfect sweet-tooth indulgence.

Step 3

Pour into ice pop molds and freeze overnight.

Tip:

  • If you’d like to sweeten these up more, add 1 cup of sugar during step 2.  I didn’t and the kids still loved them but they do have a slightly more tart taste because of the raspberries. Also, keep in mind that adding sugar diminishes how healthy the pops are.

 

Here is a cool treat that you won't feel guilty about eating! These ridiculously easy healthy raspberry pops are the perfect sweet-tooth indulgence.

Here is a cool treat that you won't feel guilty about eating! These ridiculously easy healthy raspberry pops are the perfect sweet-tooth indulgence.

Recipe Makes

Roughly 10 pops depending on the size of your molds. If using small paper cups for this recipe you will have more.

Now you have a delicious and healthy treat to satisfy your sweet tooth without blowing your calories. You can also let kiddos indulge. This is so much healthier than anything you get off the ice cream truck! (Although, those sno-cones are super yummy!) Feel free to mix up the flavors too! Use different fruits and yogurts to make some custom flavors your family will love. You could even have a taste competition to see who invents the best pops! Looking for more guilt-free recipes? Try these Lemon-Dill Cucumber Chips!

 

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Amazing DIY Floral Hat

You always want to make mom feel special no matter what day of the year it is. Mother’s Day is an excellent time (and reminder) to make her a special DIY gift to say “You are awesome and I love you”. If you saw the recent fun blog hop you already got 4 amazing budget crafts to surprise her with this year. Of course, true to form, while shopping for that craft I found more awesome materials for budget crafts. In keeping with the Mother’s Day fashion trend, here is an amazing DIY floral hat to make her day.

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This is such an easy and beautiful DIY floral hat. This is the perfect personalized gift for the gardening mom or the fashionista mom.

 

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This is such an easy and beautiful DIY floral hat. This is the perfect personalized gift for the gardening mom or the fashionista mom.

Materials

 

This is such an easy and beautiful DIY floral hat. This is the perfect personalized gift for the gardening mom or the fashionista mom.

Step 1

Remove all tags from your hat.

 

This is such an easy and beautiful DIY floral hat. This is the perfect personalized gift for the gardening mom or the fashionista mom.

Step 2

Remove current ribbon from hat.

Tip:

  • Don’t just yank the ribbon off. Find where (or if) it is attached to the hat and pull it off starting there.

Step 3

Wrap your new ribbon around your hat to measure length being sure that there is ½” overlap. Cut the ribbon.

 

This is such an easy and beautiful DIY floral hat. This is the perfect personalized gift for the gardening mom or the fashionista mom.

Step 4

Add a dab of hot glue to the front side of one end of your ribbon. Next, place the back side of the second end on top of the glue. (This should be as it was wrapped around the hat when you were measuring.)

 

This is such an easy and beautiful DIY floral hat. This is the perfect personalized gift for the gardening mom or the fashionista mom.

This is such an easy and beautiful DIY floral hat. This is the perfect personalized gift for the gardening mom or the fashionista mom.

Step 5

Cut a small piece of ribbon that is as long as double the ribbon’s width. Wrap it around your glued seam as pictured. Secure in place with hot glue.

 

This is such an easy and beautiful DIY floral hat. This is the perfect personalized gift for the gardening mom or the fashionista mom.

Step 6

Slide the ribbon back over the hat, aligning the seam on one side. Secure ribbon to hat by placing hot glue on the seam and pressing firmly to a hat.

Tip:

  • Be careful when attaching to your hat. The glue may seep through the straw and it is very hot.

 

This is such an easy and beautiful DIY floral hat. This is the perfect personalized gift for the gardening mom or the fashionista mom.

Step 7

Remove 2 flowers from the stems.

 

This is such an easy and beautiful DIY floral hat. This is the perfect personalized gift for the gardening mom or the fashionista mom.

Step 8

Cut the remaining stem off of the back of the flowers and apply hot glue to one. Firmly press flower to the side of the hat opposite the ribbon seam.

 

This is such an easy and beautiful DIY floral hat. This is the perfect personalized gift for the gardening mom or the fashionista mom.

Step 9

Attach your second flower with hot glue next to the first.

Tips:

  • Place the flowers close together for a fuller effect. You don’t want any of the hat to show between them. See the picture for reference.
  • It also helps to attach flowers with what would be the stem end of the flowers facing toward each other.

 

This is such an easy and beautiful DIY floral hat. This is the perfect personalized gift for the gardening mom or the fashionista mom.

This is such an easy and beautiful DIY floral hat. This is the perfect personalized gift for the gardening mom or the fashionista mom.

This is such an easy and beautiful DIY floral hat. This is the perfect personalized gift for the gardening mom or the fashionista mom.

This is such an easy and beautiful DIY floral hat. This is the perfect personalized gift for the gardening mom or the fashionista mom.

This is such an easy and beautiful DIY floral hat. This is the perfect personalized gift for the gardening mom or the fashionista mom.

This is such an easy and beautiful DIY! It can be personalized to specific styles and tastes, too. This can be the perfect gift for the gardening mom or the fashionista mom. Whichever style your mom rocks, she will love getting this gift for Mother’s Day. Sweeten the holiday and make it spectacular for her with one of these awesome and totally free activities. Enjoy making beautiful memories with mom this year and have a very happy Mother’s Day.

 

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