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  • Makes 12
  • 180 minutes
  • Difficulty Easy
  • 5 Ingredients

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Sweet Fruity Summer's Treat


Ingredients (makes 12 Icy-poles)

  • 1 cup water
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 2 sprigs mint
  • 1kg watermelon, peeled, diced
  • 2 tbs fresh lemon juice

Method

  1. Put water and sugar in a saucepan. Stir with a wooden spoon over medium heat for 5 minutes or until sugar has dissolved.
  2. Add mint and bring the mixture to the boil. Boil, uncovered for 5 mins or until the it thickens to a syrup.
  3. Pour the syrup into a small bowl, remove mint and cool in the fridge
  4. Place the syrup and watermelon and lemon juice in a food processor and process until smooth. Strain mixture through a sieve into a jug. Pour mixture into twelve ice-block moulds, insert stick and freeze

  • will have to try making these for my grand daughter – she just loves icy poles!

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  • Yum! That sounds so good:) Will have to try this one!

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  • These will be great for the hot weekend we have coming up.

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  • I wrote up the other day here, about making water melon juice to drink, as I cannot digest it, get awful heartburn trying to eat, juice I can drink, but I never thought of freezing it as well to make icy poles. Because I am diabetic I would leave out the sugar, but thats just for me..

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  • oh wow so summery and delish!!

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  • These sound so good and I love the idea of adding mint yum! Will definitely be doing this on the weekend for the whole family!

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  • looks great thanks for sharing

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  • I think they look awesome, my girls would love those as well as pineapple ones

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  • mint would bring out so much flavor

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  • my daughter would love these – she is the icy pole princess.

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  • What a fantastic treat for kids 🙂

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  • Geez I could eat these all day long.

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  • Awesome – make some for my son. This is his favourite colour 🙂

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  • these look lovely love the colour

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  • They sound awesome for this hot weather we’ve been having!

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  • refreshing and cooling ! thanks !

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