Well, the dog days of summer have definitely arrived, especially, in our home state of Arizona. Our daily afternoon and early evening temperatures have soared to a little over 100°F.
We're always looking for something to both quench our thirst and to satisfy our sweet tooth. As children, Orange Creamsicles were so scrumptiously delicious. However, they contain awful amounts of sugar.
We therefore, glanced into our refrigerator, to see if we had ingredients to create a low-carb version. Since, we had a couple of packages of blueberries, we thought we would attempt to create our own Blueberry type Creamsicle.
In past recipes, we've used Lemon Extract to enhance our blueberry flavors. However, when we visited our local grocery store, Lemon Extract was unavailable. We then, decided to choose a compatible flavor that would likely blend well with our blueberries - orange!
Preparation time for our Blueberry-Orange Creamsicles is about 5-10 minutes, while our freezing time is another 3-4 hours.
Our ingredients for our yummy recipe are as follows:
- 8 oz. Cream Cheese
- 2 Packages of Blueberries
- 1 Cup of Heavy Whipping Cream
- 1 Cup of Sweetener
- 1 Tbsp. Orange Extract
- Popsicle Molds
Any Popsicle Molds would work just fine. However, we wanted a set of molds that would be sturdy and last awhile. So, we found these Molds on Amazon.com (Merely click this link and you too can own this product from Amazon's Website.)
We'll begin by placing our Cream Cheese in our mixing bowl, will place in our microwave oven, and will melt for about 1 minute.
Melted Cream Cheese would assist our mixture to easily blend together.
After our melting time, we'll remove our cheese from our microwave, will stir, and will place in our food processor.
If a food processor is unavailable, a blender or electric mixture would also suffice.
Next, we'll add our cream, sweetener, Orange Extract, 1 1/2 containers of our blueberries, will cover, and blend on high for about 1 minute, or until our mixture is smooth and creamy.
Since our mixture is now creamy and smooth, we'll use our spoon to scrape any remaining ingredients from the sides of our processor, and will mix in with our bowl of creaminess.
We'll now add our remaining 1/2 container of blueberries to our mixture and will stir.
This will ensure that each creamsicle will hopefully, contain at least 1 blueberry.
We'll then, slowly and carefully fill our molds with our cream cheese mixture. We'll fill each mold to the top, but will try not to overflow them.
Next we'll cover our molds, will insert our sticks about 1/2 of the way into our mixture, and will place in our freezer for 3-4 hours.
(Please excuse our full flavored ice cream and whipped topping in our freezer. One of our birthdays was last week. So, naturally, this was one of our sugar cheating days. 😁😅😀)
We were in such a rush to eat our creamsicles, that we removed them from our freezer after about 3 hours.
Our creamsicles were slightly difficult to remove from our molds. However, after running them under hot water for about 10 seconds, we were easily able to pull them from their casings.
Our Creamsicles were definitely worth the wait!
Their textures are delicate and silky, while their flavors are just incredible!
Each bite is creamy, smooth, and embodies the rich blueberry flavor, coupled with the hint of orange. The two flavors complement each other extremely well.
Our low-carb Blueberry-Orange Creamsicles definitely satisfied our sweet tooth and will hopefully, satisfy yours, as well.
Since our frozen bars have such a low-carb, we're finding ourselves eating more than one at a time.
Thank you for visiting another week of Smokey and Giraffe's Low-Carb Kitchen!
From our kitchen to yours ~
Enjoy!
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