Love cherries? Then you will love these creamy cherry almond popsicles. They are sweet and refreshing!!
I have a few recipes for you this week that I cannot wait to share!! You may feel slightly overloaded but bare with me as I share my excitement for ridiculously easy but delicious recipes featuring summer’s finest fruits. Yesterday, you saw this cherry plum hazelnut galette that’s nutty, juicy and so pretty. Today, I am sharing with you these cherry almond popsicles that came about as a result of a 5-pound cherry columdrum! After snacking and making the galette, I still had a few cups left so my niece and I made these creamy layered popsicles.
These cherry almond popsicles were featured at the back of the current Food Network magazine and when I saw them, I knew they would be perfect for this month’s ingredients of Mystery Dish. Our wonderful host for July, Sarah, picked some exciting ingredients for us: coffee, sour cream, farro, almonds, cherries, watermelon, cantaloupe, jicama, cucumber, tomatoes, infused or flavored olive oil, fresh herbs, cornmeal, hot peppers. What a great list of ingredients! I seriously made three recipes just from this list of ingredients but only one made it to the blog. Here’s why:
My first idea was a farro greek salad (using cucumbers, tomatoes with fresh herbs) and it was so good but I did not take pictures before half of it disappeared. The hubby still doesn’t grasp the “I need pictures before you dig in” concept so we working on that. Next was a fresh watermelon-cantaloupe fruit salad. This one I brought to a July 4th party and it was not a big hit so I assumed you wouldn’t love it either. And then I made these cherry almond popsicles! So creamy, sweet and refreshing, perfect on any summer night. It’s definitely a dessert pop so enjoy after a meal. In the end, I am so happy I was forced to try this recipe because now I’m hooked :0
- 2½ cups cherries (fresh or frozen)
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- ¾ cup sour cream
- ⅔ cup sweetened condensed milk
- ¼ teaspoon almond extract
- pinch of salt
- In a medium saucepan set over medium heat, combine the cherries, sugar and lemon juice. Cook until thickened, making a chunky syrup, about 8 minutes. Let cool completely.
- In another medium bowl, whisk together the sour cream, condensed milk, almond extract and salt.
- Fill popsicle molds with cherry mixture about ¼ of the way. Freeze until set, about 30 minutes. Top with sour cream mixture, another fourth of the way. Freeze again until set, about 30 minutes. Repeat with the remaining cherry mixture freeze. Finally top with the remaining sour cream mixture. Insert wooden sticks into the pops and freeze until completely solid, at least 2 hours or overnight.
- To release popsicles, run the molds under hot water for a few seconds. Enjoy!
Check out the recipes below from the Mystery Dish team!
- Watermelon Salsa – The Pajama Chef
- Farro Salad – Chez CateyLou
- Cherry Almond Coffee Cake – Two Happy Bellies
- Watermelon Fruit Salad with Mint Lime Dressing – Yummy Healthy Easy
- Toasted Almond Caramel Mocha Gelato – Culinary Couture Blog
- Cherry Galettes with Almond Sour Cream Crust – The Well Floured Kitchen
- Cherry Watermelon Granita – Joyful Healthy Eats
- Cherry Almond Mocha Smoothie – Baking a Moment
- Pepperoni Pasta Salad – I Want Crazy
- Almond Cherry Bars – I Dig Pinterest
- Cucumber Salsa – Weary Chef
- Cherry Almond Popsicles – Blahnik Baker
Wow these look amazing!!
Thanks 🙂
These look do refreshing. Yum!
Thanks Leslie!
I made this same recipe..so good!!
Yay!! I’m glad you can attest to it’s awesomeness!!
I saw this recipe in Food Network Magazine but I still didn’t have my popsicle molds. I finally ordered them and I can’t wait to get them this week! These will be top on my list! 🙂
Yay! I hope your molds come soon!
I need to order some popsicle molds and make these asap. Looks delicious
Agreed!! Ps: I’ve used cupcake liners and styrofoam cups before to make popiscles. Cheap but totally works!
These look and sound incredible Zainab, love the flavors!!
Thanks Matt!
Zainab, these popsicle look so pretty and refreshing! I love the cherry and almond flavour combo. The sour cream must cut the sweetness of the cherry and give the popsicles a nice tang. I’ve got a bag of cherries at home that I’ve been noshing on. I should turn them into a delicious frozen treat!
Girl I’ve been noshing on so many cherries it’s ridiculous!! So good! And you are so right the sour cream cuts down on how sweet they are a bit.
Um, just drooling like crazy over here! I can’t even tell you how refreshing these look!!! And I love that there is sweetened condensed milk in these. Total win.
Total win indeed!!! And so creamy! Thanks Amy!
oh yum! i love the idea of sour cream in a popsicle.
Thanks Sarah!
Hi, it’s your husband – Just stopping by to tell you what a talented woman you are and how great the blog looks. Love ya 🙂
Well hello there!! Thank you very much! Thanks for stopping by (and for all the taste testing, it’s a hard job I know)! Love you!
These look so so pretty! I’m loving all the sweet cherries lately and they sound so refreshing and tasty in popsicle form 🙂
Thanks Kelly! Cherries are overflowing at my house!
Since one of my favorite smoothies is cherry almond I know I would love these!
I want one of these right now! I love how you layered them- they look amazing!!
Thanks Kathleen!!
WOW! These look fabulous and cherry and almond are such a great pairing!
Thanks Nancy!!
Love the simplicity! 🙂 Huge cherry fan this year. Pinning.
Have a great weekend Zainab!
Thanks Melanie!! Have a great weekend 🙂
Zainab, these cherry almond pops look soooooo good! I still have yet to master removing the frozen pops successfully. . still working on this. 😛 anyway, love these and I hope you make the farro greek salad again so we can get the recipe!!! sounds delish!
It is so tricky! If you look closely, I am yet to master it too! One day one day! And yes, I think I will post that salad soon!!
I NEED THESE IN MY LIFE!!!!! I’m lovingggggg the deeeeep red colour of these cherries and that creamy almond flavored sour cream and condensed milk is just so tempting, I need to make these stat!
Thank you Samina!!It is tempting!!
I have a feeling I would eat as many of those as the kids did! They look delicious!
Uhmmm yeah me too! Totally did 😉
I don’t love cherries.. I just adore them! These popsicles look so good 🙂
Adore is the right word 😉
Yum! These look so tasty and fresh. I think I already pinned these before seeing you post over at Foodie Fridays. I’ll just pin them to a different board 🙂
Hahah thanks Jill!!
Whoa, these look crazy good, Zainab! Beautiful photos, too! 🙂
Thanks Julie!