Healthier Recipe for Homemade Bomb Pops

This is a delicious recipe for a classic, childhood favorite bomb pops popsicles! Made with whole ingredients, they’re creamy, colorful, and flavorful! These popsicles are perfect for celebrating the 4th of July and a great summer treat. Also, check out our guide to making the best popsicles!

I still remember running outside when I heard the ice cream truck circling through our neighborhood. My popsicle of choice was the classic bomb pop popsicle. I wanted to create a homemade version of this popsicle to share with my kids and for a fun 4th of July treat.

This recipe uses fresh fruit and yogurt. It’s sweetened with a little sugar, you can always use honey, and flavored with whole ingredients. That’s the benefit of making your own bomb pop popsicles!

The popsicles consist of three red, white, and blue layers. The blue layer does have more of a purple color because, well blueberries aren’t so blue when you blend them up!

We experimented with a few different options to try and make the layer natural blue color, but nothing seemed worth the extra trouble since we want these to be easy.

If you really want a super blue flavor, food coloring really is the best way. However, you can leave it more of a purple hue as we did.

How to Make Bomb Pops

Red Popsicle Layer

The red layer is made with strawberries, cornstarch lemon juice, and sugar.

So the cornstarch helps keep them creamy! I use it in my ice cream recipes too, like this raspberry cheesecake swirl.

White Popsicle Layer

The white layer is made with vanilla yogurt and milk. You can use coconut milk, almond milk, or whole milk. It also has sugar and cornstarch.

Blue Popsicle Layer

The blue (purple if we’re being honest!) layer is made with blueberries, sugar, cornstarch, and a little milk. Almond or coconut milk.

Blend all of the ingredients together in a blender until smooth.

Making Bomb Pop Popsicles

Once you have all of the simple ingredients prepared, these are really easy to make.

Make each one of the layers separately and store it in a container with a spout. To make the layers just blend the ingredients in a blender on high until they are fully blended and smooth.

Creating Layers

Each layer has to freeze, so pour the first layer in the popsicle mold and then freeze for 30 minutes. Then add in the next layer and freeze. Continue until you reach the top.

Add the popsicle stick in before you reach the middle of the mold to freeze in place.

Choose whatever layer pattern you want. Classic bomb pop popsicles are three layers of red, white and blue. We did a few layers of red and white and then all blue at the bottom.

Bomb Pop Popsicle Mold

We used this one and it worked perfectly. Instead of adding the plastic purple back into the popsicle, we used wooden popsicle sticks.

However, we’ve made popsicles with this mold recently for the kids and used the sticks it comes with. They work really well and have a little area to catch drips.

Tips for Making Popsicles

Make sure to leave about 1/4″ space at the top of the mold for the popsicle to expand. 

When juice and water freezes, it expands. If the juice and ice expand over the mold, it makes the removal of the lid on the mold harder. Also, you don’t get a clean edge to your popsicle.

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