Homemade Fruit Popsicles

These Homemade Fruit Popsicles are made with fruit juice, and packed with real, fresh fruit inside, so they’re as beautiful as they are tasty! Use your choice of fruit and juice, or make a grown-up version with sangria! Fruit juice popsicles are easy, refreshing, and perfect for enjoying all summer long.

Table of Contents

• 🍈 Fruit popsicles with fresh fruit inside!
• 🧾 What You’ll Need
• 📋 Instructions
• 💭 Variations
• ❤️ More Fun Frozen Desserts
• Homemade Fruit Popsicles Recipe

🧾 What You’ll Need

Ingredients

There are just 2 components to these popsicles: the liquid and the fruit! You can never go wrong using flavors that you love, but here are a few tips for making successful fruit-filled popsicles:

• Juice: clear juice works best for these popsicles, since it allows the sliced fruit inside to shine through. White grape juice is my usual choice, but you could also use lemonade or even coconut water. If you’re looking to add a little alcohol, check out the instructions below for a Sangria version!
• Melon: To make the white stars embedded in the popsicles, you’ll need a white melon, typically called a canary melon. (Names might vary regionally.) If you’re not concerned about keeping the stars white, other melons, like honeydew and cantaloupe, also work well.
• Berries: Strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries are all great choices. Large berries like strawberries should be sliced thinly so they fit easily into the popsicle molds.

Equipment

I love making homemade popsicles, and with 2 kids at home, my popsicle molds get a lot of use during the summer! Here are my popsicle-making faves: (Links are affiliate links and I earn a small commission from qualifying purchases.)

• Popsicle mold: A silicone popsicle mold, like this one, makes removal much easier than the old-fashioned hard plastic kind.
• Popsicle sticks: most molds come with a certain number of sticks, but if you make popsicles frequently, you’ll need some refills! This 200 pack ensures you can make many, many popsicles this summer.
• Star cookie cutter: If you want to re-create these star-spangled popsicles, you’ll need a small star-shaped cookie cutter in your arsenal.

📋 Instructions

Here’s a quick overview of how to assemble these fruit-packed popsicles. Full printable instructions are included in the recipe card down below.

How to prepare the fruit

The star-shaped melon pieces are completely optional, but since they’re also completely adorable, here’s how you do it!

Cut the melon into thin circles–aim for about 1/4-inch thick if possible. You don’t want your fruit pieces too thick, or else they won’t fit nicely in the popsicle molds.

Use a small cookie cutter to cut little shapes from the melon. You can use stars, hearts, flowers, butterflies, or anything else you’d like!

Other large fruit, like strawberries, should also be sliced thinly. Smaller berries like blueberries can be left whole.

How to fill the molds

Layer the fruit in the popsicle molds in your desired order. For the popsicles picture here, I started with strawberries, then melon stars, then ended with the blueberries.

Pour the juice into the molds, filling them completely. Cover the mold and insert the popsicle sticks. Freeze the popsicles for at least 8 hours, preferably overnight.

💭 Variations

This recipe is SO flexible, and you have endless options for customizing your own juice pops! Try some of these fun ideas:

• Liquids: use lemonade, limeade, coconut water, white grape juice, apple juice, pear juice, or a mix of some of the above.
• Fruit: sliced kiwi, clementine slices, melon slices (canary, honeydew, or cantaloupe), berries, cherries, apple or pear slices, or even more exotic fruits like starfruit or dragon fruit.

Sangria Popsicles

Great news: these can easily be transformed into alco-pops! To make deliciously fruity sangria popsicles, all you have to do is combine 1.5 cups of your favorite white wine with 1 cup of white grape juice. Stir them together briefly, and then proceed with the rest of the recipe as written.

You can also use rose or red wine in this recipe, you just won’t be able to see the fruit slices as well if you don’t use a clear liquid.

❤️ More Fun Frozen Desserts

• White Chocolate Mint Popsicles
• Peach Passion Pops
• Chocolate-Dipped Frozen Bananas
• Circus Animal No-Churn Ice Cream
• Strawberry Lemonade Ice Cream Pie
• Homemade Choco Tacos

Don’t miss the step-by-step tutorial showing how to make Fruit Popsicles – check out the web story here!