Hot summer days require cool refreshing treats and these easy rainbow popsicles made with real fruit and honey are just the thing!
Want more kid-friendly frozen desserts? Try easy homemade popsicles, fudge popsicles and breakfast yogurt popsicles!
Why I Love This Recipe
- Healthy and delicious. It’s one of my favorite kid friendly recipes because it’s made with real fruit and naturally sweetened with honey. Younger kids often nickname these ‘cocomelon rainbow popsicles’.
- Vibrant and fun. Makes colorful popsicles that fit nicely alongside other treats like rainbow jello and rainbow cupcakes!
Rainbow Popsicle Recipe Ingredients
I use frozen fruit, so once it is puréed, the rainbow popsicles are thick enough to layer in the mold.
- Sliced strawberries
- Orange slices
- Pineapple chunks
- Kiwi slices
- Blueberries
- Red seedless grapes
- Honey
How to Make Rainbow Popsicles
Blend your choice of fruit with honey until puréed. Then, transfer it to a bowl, clean out the blender, and repeat with the second fruit. Then the third, and so on. Each fruit gets blended separately, cleaning the blender in between, so the colors don’t mix.
With a spoon, layer the rainbow ice pops in order of the colors of the rainbow, beginning with strawberries for red, then oranges, pineapple, kiwis, blueberries, and then finally the grape layer at the top. Kids love to help during this part!
If your molds don’t come with their own popsicle sticks, insert the traditional wooden ones and place the mold in the freezer for at least 6 hours. Overnight is even better.
Once your rainbow fruit popsicles are set, run them under warm water for a few seconds to loosen them from the walls so they can easily be removed. Enjoy!
Tips and Variations
- For sweeter rainbow popsicles, add 1-2 teaspoons sugar when blending each layer of fruit.
- Use different fruit but keep the colors! Mandarin oranges, peaches, or mango instead of oranges, mixed berries instead of grapes, or raspberries instead of strawberries. Depending on the fruit you use, you may need to alter the amount you use.
- You can use fresh fruit or canned fruit. Freeze it ahead of time.
- Sometimes frozen fruit can be hard to blend. If it’s too thick, add a splash of water or milk to thin it out a bit.
- To get a more vibrant blueberry and grape color, blend the frozen fruit and then let it rest for a bit. Mash the mixture with a spoon to extract the juice and then purée again.
- To prevent colors bleeding, add one layer at a time and freeze between each one. I find a spoon works great, rather than pouring the mixture. Freezing each layer is especially great when the mixture isn’t thick enough.
More frozen desserts to try for summer include frozen strawberry lemonade, frozen hot chocolate and frozen s’mores.
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Rainbow Popsicles
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Equipment
- Popsicle Mold
Ingredients
- 1 cup strawberry slices , frozen
- ½ cup orange slices , frozen
- ½ cup pineapple chunks , frozen
- ½ cup kiwi slices , frozen
- 1 cup blueberries , frozen
- 1 cup red seedless grapes , frozen
- ¼ cup honey , add more for desired sweetness
Instructions
- Using a blender, blend 2 teaspoons of honey seperately with each fruit. Clean out the blender between each fruit layer to prevent mixing of colors.
- With a spoon, layer fruit into the popsicle molds in order of the colors of the rainbow. Strawberries at bottom for the red layer, oranges for orange layer, pineapple for yellow layer, kiwis for green layer, blueberries for blue layer and ending with the grape layer at the top for the final purple rainbow layer.
- Insert popsicle stick into the top and then place into the freezer. Freeze for 6 hours, or overnight until hard.
- Run mold under warm water for a few seconds and then remove popsicles. Serve while cold.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition provided is an estimate. It will vary based on specific ingredients used.
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Categorized as: 4th of July, American, Desserts, Freezer-Friendly, Frozen Desserts, Fruit Desserts, Kid-Friendly
Jamielyn Nye is the founder and recipe creator at I Heart Naptime. She is the author of the I Heart Naptime Cookbook and shares easy family-friendly recipes and desserts for every occasion.
These were so fun and my kids absolutely loved them and are asking when we can make them again.
So glad everyone enjoyed them!
These popsicles were so good and everyone loved them. So refreshing.
Thanks for making them!
Fun, refreshing, and delicious!! My kids want popsicles everyday, multiple times a day & these are perfect! They love to be right there helping me make them!
Turned out great! My daughters couldn’t wait to try these! – Recipe tester
A favorite among my kids/teens, too!
These turned out so cute, what a fun treat! Had to get creative with our fruity colors as we made them on a whim, but everyone couldn’t wait to try them!
They are the perfect treat for summer! Thanks for making them.