Welcome to #IceCreamWeek! Kim of Cravings of a Lunatic and Jen of Juanita’s Cocina have teamed up with more than 20 of their blog friends to bring you a week full of ice cream treats, including a special ice cream giveaway! Prepare to have your taste buds tempted with some of the best ice cream treats around! Make sure you enter the giveaway for a Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker and two fabulous ice cream cookbooks so that you can join in on the ice cream fun!
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I am so excited for #IceCreamWeek! If you are an ice cream lover like I am, then I suggest sticking around all week long – we have some amazing recipes coming your way! I thought I’d start you off with the easiest of my three recipes – a little childhood throwback if you will.
Do you remember the Jell-O Pudding Pops commercials with Bill Cosby? It’s the first thing I associate when I think of fudge pops and the second is when we used to get fudge pops for our end of day ice cream snack at camp. I remember liking fudge pops – but let’s be honest they weren’t very chocolatey. These dark chocolate fudge pops are basically hot chocolate on a stick. It’s the perfect balance of chocolate flavor with creamy ice cream goodness. Oh and it takes no time to make, after trying these you’ll ever wonder why you bought fudge pops before!
Ingredients
- 6oz bittersweet chocolate (no more than 60% cacao)
- 2/3 cup cane sugar
- 1 1/2 cups whole milk
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 2 tablespoons corn starch
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- In a medium saucepan over medium heat combine the bittersweet chocolate, sugar, whole milk, heavy cream and cocoa powder.
- Once the chocolate is completely melted, stir in the corn starch and salt.
- Cook for an additional minute or two until the mixture is thickened - do not bring to a boil.
- Transfer to a mixing bowl and chill in the refrigerator for an hour.
- Pour into popsicle molds and freeze for 4 hours or overnight.
- Makes 8 3oz fudge pops.
Make sure you check out each of these blogs, today and all week long, for their #IceCreamWeek recipes ~ and for chances to enter to win our #IceCreamWeek giveaway!
- Cravings of a Lunatic with Red Velvet and White Chocolate Swirl Cheesecake Ice Cream
- Juanita’s Cocina with a Welcome to #IceCreamWeek
- Poet in the Pantry with Voodoo Bacon Maple Beer Ice Cream
- That Skinny Chick Can Bake with Cake Batter Ice Cream
- The Corner Kitchen with Backyard Mint Ice Cream
- The Girl in the Little Red Kitchen with Dark Chocolate Fudge Pops
- girlichef with a Welcome to #IceCreamWeek
- Frugal Antics of a Harried Homemaker with Strawberry Ice Cream
- What Jew Wanna Eat with a Welcome to #IceCreamWeek
- Cook the Story with a Welcome to #IceCreamWeek
- The Kitchen is my Playground with 3-Ingredient Creamy Coconut Ice Cream {No Machine Needed}
- The Spiffy Cookie with a Welcome to #IceCreamWeek
- Quarter Life (Crisis) Cuisine with a Welcome to #IceCreamWeek
- My Catholic Kitchen with Strawberry Ice Cream
- 52 Kitchen Adventures with a Welcome to #IceCreamWeek
- Food Babbles with Roasted Apricot Honey Ice Cream
- Cookistry with Thin Mint Ice Cream
- Foodness Gracious with Molasses Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches
- The Ninja Baker with S’More Ice Cream
- It’s Yummilicous with a Welcome to ?#?IceCreamWeek?
- Sugarhero with Salted Caramel Ice Cream Sandwiches
Follow our #IceCreamWeek Pinterest Board all week for chances to win bonus prizes!
Kim of Cravings of a Lunatic and Jen from Juanita’s Cocina have also teamed up for a fabulous giveaway! ***This giveaway is for one Cusinart Ice Cream Maker (in white), one copy of “The Ultimate Ice Cream Book” by Bruce Weinstein, and one copy of “Thoroughly Modern Milkshakes” by Adam Ried (three different winners)! This giveaway is open to US and Canadian residents only. When the contest concludes, the winner will be chosen by random draw. The winner will then be notified through e-mail and they will have 3 days to respond or another winner will be chosen.*** Alongside all our deliciously, cold ice cream treats, a new week-long PinChatLive event has been created just in time for #IceCreamWeek! For full details on how to participate in this event click here. Participate in the PinChatLive and Rafflecopter below daily to increase your chances of winning! Then, cap off #IceCreamWeek with a celebratory 30 minute PinChatLive on Saturday, August 17th at 2 p.m. EST, where:
***Disclaimer: This giveaway is sponsored by Cravings of a Lunatic and Juanita’s Cocina. No brand sponsors have taken a part in this giveaway.***
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YESSS YES YES. Dark chocolate fudge pops, mmm yeah. I think I like this. (UNDERSTATEMENT)
I LOVE chocolate!
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I LOVED fudge pops growing up…so much better than popsicles! Yours look perfect!
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My kids would go ga-ga over those fudge pops. I bought a bunch of popsicle molds at the beginning of summer but haven’t gotten around to making anything with them. This would be a perfect way to inaugurate them!
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Yes, why do I buy fudge pops? And why have I not been making them?? Definitely making these bars stat!
totally tried making fudge pops the other day and failed miserably! Can’t wait to make these!
I loooove homemade fudge pops! These sound divine and I’m a sucker for dark chocolate so these are screaming my name. Yum!
Gimme one of these pops stat! Love that they taste like hot chocolate on a stick!
You had me at hot chocolate on a stick!
“Hot chocolate on a stick”?! Yes, please! These sound heavenly! Yay for #IceCreamWeek!
Oh my gosh, I used to be obsessed with fudge pops when I was younger, but I haven’t had them in ages! Obviously I need to fix that pronto. Iām excited to be blogging along with you and to see what else you come up with this week. š
Oh boy does this bring me to my child hood! Oh my your fudge pops looks sooo good, I love all the flavors that you have put into this makes them look extra fudgy!
I’m gonna need a bigger pop mold. Mine are too tiny, and I need a big one. These look sooo good, and I love that they’re all melty in the pics š
I’ve just discovered the amazingness of popsicles this summer, but have yet to do chocolate. I’m really not sure how that happened. But now I will most definitely be making up for that oversight with these, these are so gorgeous and delicious!! I can’t wait to try!
Oh em gee! Get in mah bellah! These are amazeballs Susan. I need some. Like stat.
Thanks for joining us this week. So happy to have you on board. xx
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I like mint chocolate chip
Ice cream week,wow a whole. Will have to get supplies and lots of cones
Fudgsicles were my favourite frozen treat as a kid and boy, have you elevated them to the next level here! Sigh…I remember seeing those Bill Cosby commercials on tv eons ago. It makes me feel old thinking about how long ago that was! Susan, your photos are ridiculously beautiful. I love the dark background and those melting pops.
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Yes, why do I buy fudge pops? And why have I not been making them?? Definitely making these bars stat!
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I just made these, they’re basically pudding pops… And SO GOOD! Thank you!
Thank you so much for letting me know that you enjoyed the pops and for the compliment!