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Sugar-free creamsicle recipe that uses fresh juice and healthy fat to prevent the blood sugar crash and mood swings that occur with store brands.
When my kids are home from school, they are usually ravenous. Providing a snack that steadies the blood sugar, provides nutrition, and is yummy to boot can be a real challenge!
Healthy, no sugar creamsicles are a usual favorite when the weather is warm. They never fail to please!
Best of all, this frozen treat is a snack you can prepare ahead and have ready at a moment’s notice.
No need to stock the pantry with the backside bulging boxes of cookies, crackers, and chips from the store that are sure to make your child grumpy and lazed out on the couch in front of the TV or playing video games.
Pitch those boxes of store creamsicles too that loaded with GMO sugar, additives, and chemicals and get creative!
No Sugar and Healthy Fats!
This healthy alternative is made with only enzyme-rich, fresh-pressed juice, and heavy grassfed cream.
Use coconut cream for those that are dairy-sensitive.
The healthy fats slow the carb absorption to a crawl so no sugar crash or meltdown an hour later.
Note that they make more than a great snack too. Medicinally, they are wonderful to have on hand in the freezer.
They are perfect as a quick sore throat remedy to comfort a child with something cold that isn’t sugary.
Also, if you prefer not to freeze the recipe below, it makes for a healthy glass of breakfast OJ too.
In the video included with the recipe below, I demonstrate how to make no sugar creamsicles. The trick is to use fresh pressed juice of your choice.
I prefer to use orange juice as it is readily available fresh where I live.
TIP: For extra nutrition, use homemade orangina, fermented Hindu lemonade or this cultured honey lemonade to create a probiotic loaded creamsicle!
Homemade, No Sugar Creamsicles Recipe
Healthy, no sugar creamsicle recipe using fresh juice of choice and a small amount of nourishing fats that prevents the blood sugar crash and grumpies from sugar/chemical loaded commercial popsicles.
Ingredients
- 3 cups fresh squeezed orange juice
- 3 Tbl heavy grassfed cream
Instructions
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Mix fresh orange juice and cream well with a whisk so there are no lumps. You can sometimes get freshly squeezed orange juice in season at the healthfood store.
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Pour into nontoxic popsicle containers (I like these) and place in the freezer until thoroughly frozen.
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Enjoy your delicious homemade creamsicles anytime! They are especially refreshing after an afternoon of hot yard work, for a light dessert after dinner or even for breakfast if you dare!
Recipe Video
Do you have any other creative ideas for healthy after school snacks for the kids? Please share in the comments section! I am always seeking new options to mix things up.
Finally got around to watching this video and can’t wait to make up a batch of these!! Thanks!
FYI – anyone looking, Ikea has the BEST popsicle holders. They are very compact and fit in (our) freezer door very nicely. I just bought two of them and hope they get used a lot this summer. Thanks for the orange creamsicle recipe and I’m also going to try that fudgesicle recipe!
I haven’t read everyone else’s posts, but smoothie “pops” are a staple in our home! My mom made these for us when I was growing up. I never measure, but here’s what I throw into the blender:
frozen bananas
frozen strawberries and/or blueberries
almond butter
raw whole milk or kefir
dollop of raw honey
We drink the smoothie, then pour any remaining into the popsicle container and pop into the freezer. They’re the perfect afternoon treat, especially poolside!
I made chocolate mousse recently. It has very little sugar (since I used 80% cocoa chocolate) and lots of healthy protein from six raw eggs! I used organic powdered sugar, but I’m pretty sure you can sweeten with honey, if you choose. My kids loved it 🙂
I made orange creamsicles for my kids the other day. I didn’t have a recipe so I just made it up on my own. I did cream, orange juice and a raw pasture raised egg and poured them into dixie cups with a Popsicle stick stuck in a piece of parchment paper to hold it in place. Then I just tore away the paper cup when I was ready to serve them.
These look delicious! Do you have any tips for removing the popsicles, though? Every time I’ve tried to make my own, and try to pull one out after it has frozen, the handle comes off in my hand and the popsicle stays stuck in the mold. Argh.
I’d love to know how to get around that. Should I just buy a better quality mold? 🙂 Any tips?
Hi Jaime, I turn the popsicle container upside down and run hot water from the kitchen faucet for a few seconds over the bottom of the container and they pop right out after that. This is how I quickly pop a chunk of frozen stock out of a container straight from the freezer too!
how simple! i bought the kit from ikea and have needed the perfect recipe to get me going. i am going to make this for my daughter tomorrow.
Hey Sarah,
You have mentioned before that conventional, store bought OJ is bad and full of pesticides and it’s pasteurized and bad. But what about fresh squeezed juice from conventional oranges? Not organic? But not the pasteurized store bought juice? Would that be an acceptable option?
Thanks!
Hi LeaG, yes you can squeeze conventional oranges if you like .. just soak them in the kitchen basin filled with water plus 1 cup of white vinegar for about 15-20 minutes to remove pesticide residues and then rinse well, slice and squeeze. Don’t use the juicers where the whole orange would be put in skin and all.
Thank you! Love your blog!
Hi Sarah, do you thnik is a good idea to give a two year old boy a popsicle? We have recently noticed that he has chalky appearance in his front teeth so I`m thinking that is not a good idea to give him things like fruit juice. I want to also thank to you of your clear voice and way of talking english. As I`m a spanish native speaker I can understand you almost 100 per cent.
Oh, I’m so glad to hear that Lucila! Thanks for letting me know.
Fresh squeezed fruit juice diluted with some filtered water or in a popsicle with cream would be ok now and then. Just have him drink some water after eating to rinse off his teeth well.
Mmmm, these look delicious. I giggled during the first part of your video because I do not have any problem with getting my 4-year-old or 1-year-old to eat plenty of fat. They will both eat sour cream (tons of it!) and drink cream, too. They also both love to eat fats from meat and chicken skin. I hope it stays that way as they get older. I usually freeze smoothies into popsicles all summer long, but I’ll have to try this creamsicle recipe for some variety. Thanks!