With Lifeway Farmer Cheese, anything is popsicle! Today, we’re blending our soft cheese with fresh fruit and a few other ingredients to make a flavorful batch of Blackberry and Pineapple Farmer Cheese Pops. The fresh fruit in this recipe gives these icy treats a sharp, sweet flavor while the Lifeway Farmer Cheese complements those notes and fills the pops with probiotics. It’s perfect.
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Prep Time: 10 mins Servings: 6-8Ingredients
- 2 cups pineapple slices
- 3 cups Farmer Cheese
- 1 cup coconut cream
- 1 oz sweetened condensed milk
- juice of 1 lime
- 1 cup blackberries
Directions
- In a high-speed blender (or food processor), blend together pineapple, farmer cheese, coconut cream, sweetened condensed milk. Set in the fridge until ready to use.
- In a high speed blender (or food processor), blend together blackberries and lime juice until puréed well.
- In ice pop sleeves, funnel in some of the farmer cheese mixture about half way. Funnel in blackberry puree and mix with a skewer stick. Fill the rest of the pops with the Farmer Cheese mixture.
- Seal and freeze the ice pops for at least 6 hours before enjoying!
