Rainbow Popsicles
Outstanding 7 layer rainbow popsicles! Make your own homemade rainbow popsicles with lots of fresh fruit!
We have a double whammy! Last week we shared our recipe for rainbow smoothies and today we’re sharing a recipe for rainbow popsicles! One fun recipe – 2 great ideas!
I like to think of it like muffins and bread. You can make banana bread muffins or banana bread out of the same batter. Same thing here – rainbow smoothie or rainbow popsicles but the base recipe is the same!
In the rainbow smoothie recipe I talked a lot about how to make the smoothies, what kind of ingredients you’ll need, and how to layer the smoothie.
Today I’m going to talk about taking this recipe from a smoothie and making it into a popsicle!
Popsicle Molds
In order to make popsicles at home you’ll need a popsicle mold and popsicle sticks. I rounded up 8 fun molds that will definitely get us excited about popsicle season!
#1 – Stainless Steel Popsicle Mold – they kind of look like spaceships!
#2 – Ice Cream Cone Mold – how fun?!
#3 – Ring Pop Mold – hello 1990s!!
#4 – Standard Popsicle Mold – this is the one I own and love it!
#5 – Rocket Popsicle Mold – I could definitely see myself buying this one when we have kids!
#6 – Star Wars Lightsaber Popsicle Mold – GREAT idea!
#7 – Squeezable mold – with a cap so you can save the popsicle for late!
#8 – Double popsicle mold – 2 popsicles in one, share one or eat them both!
So fun, I think I want all of them now!!
Base Smoothie Ingredients
Each layer in our rainbow smoothie uses similar ingredients. Some of the most common base ingredients in each layer includes:
- frozen banana
- greek yogurt
- liquid for blending, like milk, almond milk or water
- frozen fruit – each layer calls for a different fruit depending on the color we’re trying to achieve
Tips for Making Rainbow Popsicles
Layering the smoothies in the mold is easy. Use a spoon or tablespoon to scoop the smoothie mixture into the mold.
It’s natural for the layers to blend a bit, but I have noticed that spooning the smoothies into the mold versus pouring the smoothie in from a glass leaves better results.
Once the molds are filled, freeze the popsicles overnight.
How to remove popsicles from mold
To get the rainbow popsicles to release from the mold, fill your kitchen sink with room temperature water. Place the mold in the water, making sure the water does not go above the top of the mold.
Allow the mold to sit in the water for a few seconds.
Begin to wiggle a popsicle free. If it feels tough, allow them to set in the water a few more seconds.
Once all of the popsicles are removed from the mold, enjoy or wrap the extras in plastic wrap and return to the freezer.
Here’s the best part, most likely you’ll have leftover smoothie (unless you’re making 30+ popsicles at one time) so you can enjoy a rainbow smoothie while you wait for your rainbow popsicles to freeze!
If you’re doing a rainbow themed party or preschool lesson, put this rainbow bread on the list of things to make!
If you’re looking for an easier version of rainbow popsicles, try fresh fruit popsicles!
Have leftover beets? Make ABC Juice!
Looking for more summer recipes?
Watermelon cupcakes – perfect cupcake for a summer birthday
Lemon sugar cookies – I like to call this cookie “the summer” cookie
Strawberry whipped cream – add this to cake & cupcakes, fruit crisp, or cookies
Rainbow Popsicles
Ingredients
RED LAYER
- 1 frozen banana
- ½ cup greek yogurt, vanilla or plain
- ½ cup frozen raspberries
- ½ cup frozen strawberries
- water or liquid for blending
ORANGE LAYER
- 1 frozen banana
- ½ cup greek yogurt, vanilla or plain
- ½ cup frozen peaches
- 1 small orange
- ¼ cup frozen mango
- water or liquid for blending
YELLOW LAYER
- 2 frozen bananas
- ½ cup greek yogurt, vanilla or plain
- 1 cup frozen pineapple
- water or liquid for blending
GREEN LAYER
- 2 frozen bananas
- ½ cup greek yogurt, vanilla or plain
- 1 handful, or more spinach
- 1 cup frozen pineapple
- water or liquid for blending
BLUE LAYER
- 2 frozen bananas
- ½ cup greek yogurt, vanilla or plain
- 1 cup frozen pineapple
- small amount of blue food coloring
- water or liquid for blending
PURPLE LAYER
- 1 frozen banana
- ½ cup greek yogurt, vanilla or plain
- 1 cup frozen mixed berries
- water or liquid for blending
MAGENTA LAYER
- 1 frozen banana
- ½ cup greek yogurt, vanilla or plain
- ½ cup sliced canned beets
- 1 cup frozen strawberries or raspberries
Instructions
FOR EACH SMOOTHIE
- Place all the ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth. Add more liquid to help it blend if it’s too thick.
- Transfer the smoothie to a bowl or container, rinse the blender and prep the next smoothie.
TO ASSEMBLE THE RAINBOW POPSICLES
- Carefully layer each color smoothie in a popsicle mold in rainbow order.
- Layering the smoothies in the mold is easy. Use a spoon or tablespoon to scoop the smoothie mixture into the mold. It’s natural for the layers to blend a bit, but I have noticed that spooning the smoothies into the mold versus pouring the smoothie in from a glass leaves better results.
- Once the molds are filled, add the sticks and freeze the popsicles overnight.
- To get the popsicles to release from the mold, fill your kitchen sink with room temperature water. Place the mold in the water, making sure the water does not go above the top of the mold.
- Allow the mold to sit in the water for a few seconds.
- Begin to wiggle a popsicle free. If it feels tough, allow them to set in the water a few more seconds.
- Once all of the popsicles are removed from the mold, enjoy or wrap the extras in plastic wrap and return to the freezer.
Love these popsicles!!! Not only are they super pretty but they sound absolutely delicious too ????
Awww thank you Quin!
These are just gorgeous, Beth! I love that they’re healthy, too. And those popsicle molds are all SO cute!!
Thank you Denise! Yes.. which to choose :)
Awesome colors and fruity too! Very summer refreshing!
Thank you Tin!
Fantastic healthy idea for the kids…… well yes and me too! Keep up the good recipes!
Very Nice! Love all the colors. Hope you can check my Pops out sometime. Sunset Pops and more. Deby
These have to be the prettiest popsicles I have ever seen!! And they look so fun!!!
Wow, these popsicles look delicious and they are so colorful! Great idea! My grandchildren would LOVE them!
Beautiful! But why use blue food coloring instead of blue berries?
I tried to make a blue smoothie using just blueberries, yogurt, and a banana. As much as I wanted it to be blue, it was purple. So to get the blue layer to actually be blue, I simply repeated the yellow layer (since it’s the lightest color) and added blue food coloring. A rainbow just isn’t a rainbow without blue!
Rachel,
I thought 💭🤔 that too.
The blueberries 🫐
Just a suggestion but using a butterfly Pea flower powder would also be something beneficial to use instead of food coloring, it has a beautiful blue color. It is loaded with antioxidants! :)
Can’t wait to make with my grandchildren!!!
You could also try blue spirulina powder instead of the food coloring.
Can you make the smoothies without bananas and still make the Popsicles? My daughter is allergic to bananas.
Hi Lauren! I am sure you can, I would suggest googling banana substitutes for smoothies!
I made them with no bananas or yogurt. Can’t say it was easy but it worked. blended not juiced: strawberry, orange, kiwi, blueberry with a little grape juice if u want
How did you spoon the first few colours into the molds without getting the mixture on the sides of the mold? When I tried to spoon them in, or even pipe them in with a sandwich bag, the layers on the lowest part of the mold would inevitably end up smearing a bit on the sides.
Mixing of the layers is natural – using smoothie mixtures that are thicker will help them from blending too much.
Hi! Can you explain how you spooned the layers in so neatly? Whenever I’ve done multi-layered popsicles without freezing each layer first, I’ve had difficulty getting the first/bottom layers into the moulds without smearing the colour on the sides of the mould. I’ve even tried piping the layers in with a sandwich bag without much greater success. How did you get yours so cleanly layered?
Hi Frai! I just used a spoon to spoon the smoothie into the mold. Having thicker smoothie mixtures will help from them blending too much.
These look awesome! Can’t wait to try them out for the kiddos.
I have just reposted your ABSOLUTELY amazing article about the rainbow popsicles on Instagram- LOVE THIS! <3
Warm greetings from Thailand! :)
Julie
I am allergic to pineapple. What can I substitute for pineapple?
We don’t like yogurt, is there a substitute??
Perhaps some lightly softened vanilla ice cream? It might give them a more cream cycle flavor instead though. Personally, I think that would be good. Diane 57
This looks really interesting and refreshing! I love the rainbow colors!
Wishing one of these would magically appear on my desk. The photos are so beautiful, they could practically be framed!!
These are just so much fun! I love all the colors and they’re pretty healthy to boot!
These are so pretty! I’ve been looking for some moulds and appreciate you sharing some!
We are going to make the popcicles but are the beets raw or roasted?
I used canned beets!
These are so beautiful!!! I can’t wait to try these!
Hey There! I love your blog and this recipe and I’m actually featuring it in a video on my youtube channel this friday so feel free to head over and check it out or even share it if you feel so inclined… Thanks for sharing your talents with us. Keep up the colorful work! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTcwtkAgs4HdVKMwS2n2OOA
Oh my goodness! Your video is so cute! Awesome job!
I hate bananas! Do you have to use them or can I just take them out and keep everything else the same? Is there something I can substitute?
Nice recipes, beautiful result and I’ll try it at home Ms. Beth but I want you to help me to find the popsicle molds number 4
if you can help me please email me on nha.nose@gmail.com
Thanks :)
Looks so easy.
It is so fun and easy.
My son can’t eat pineapples, he is allergic to them. What could I substitute for that in the colors that includes them?
Yummy! I pinned these, they are going to be great once the spring and summer decides to show up.
Do the beets give a strong beet taste to the pops? We make juice at home, and my daughter doesn’t like anything with beets in it. She really wants to make these rainbow pops though!!!!
I just added beets until I was fine with the colour. It took about 4 slices, so it was less than in the recepie. It tasted very subtle, your daughter will like it!
hi do the bananas and pineapple have to be frozen ?
No, not necessarily!
Where do you find extra sticks for that mold?
Amazon or walmart!
Hi! I absolutely love these!!!! Is there any substitutes for yogurt? Im not a huge fan of yogurt based popsicles.
Hi Ashley! While yogurt is a primary ingredient in these popsicles, you could try to make them without the yogurt. You may have to add in more liquid for blending.
Wow.. It looks great…
But, why using banana? Is there any fruit except banana for make this popsicle?
Actually, i have a task from my teacher to make our business, and i want to start up my own business from Popsicle.. And i hope i can make a delicious popsicle like this..
Thank you
Hi, do you know if there is any substitute for canned beets?
These are SO gorgeous!!
Found it much easier and got cleaner layers when I used a straw to form the layers. I used a little bigger straw than the normal size, and then you suck the smoothies up in the straw and then gently blow it out in the mold ;) No mess on the side of the mold!
Such a great idea! Thank you for sharing!
These looked so beautiful, my daughter couldn’t wait to make them! However after following the recipe for a few layers we found that each layer was pastel. Having made ice pops before, I have found that dairy products do produce pastel colored pops and those with fruit/juice produce more vibrant colors. If the pops in the photos have yogurt in them, it isn’t FAR less than the 1/2 cup called for in the recipe. In future, I think I’ll use fresh fruit and maybe 2tbsp of yogurt per layer to get more vibrant colors.
YES! We just made them tonight and our layers are definitely pastel, not vibrant. Thanks for the tip on how to make them more vibrant next time!
Hi! Just made them. Waiting to freeze! Has anyone calculated the calories in these?
Love this recipe.
TIP- use blue spirulina instead of blue coloring..
Not only these popsicles pretty. I bet they taste good too. I can’t wait to make them. 😋
Will have to try this with blue green ales in place of the blue dye!.. we have a severe red dye sensitivity in our home so try to avoid all dyes. Love this! They are so beautiful!
How about blue flowering pea tea in place of blue dye?