Your forecast sounds perfect for these pudding pops we're making with OSF
registered dietitian Ashley Simper. Ashley, this is taking me back to my childhood. I know!
I'm a child of the 80s, so I grew up on pudding pops and, I mean, it is a perfect time
of year for popsicles and I wanted to be a little reminiscent. How do we get started?
Well, I have two different flavors. So in my mind, I'm like "What kind of flavors
can I create from pudding?" So, you can really use any instant, sugar-free,
fat-free pudding as a base and then add your own ingredients, which is what I did.
so we'll start with Lauren. Sounds good! Alright! Lauren, I have you with the cheesecake
flavored pudding already made. Oh, it's not... I was guessing vanilla. You could use
vanilla but there's something about the cheesecake flavor that I like. So this is
the one ounce, I believe it's the one ounce packet and all I did was add 2
cups of skim milk and I whisked it until it's thick like pudding. So we have made
our pudding. Yeah, it does look pretty thick. So you're doing a tropical coconut.
I like tropical. So I have some pineapple. This is pineapple?
Not applesauce? Nope, that's a little bit of pineapple.
So it's 1/3 of a cup of chopped pineapple with the juice, I like to have the juice in there.
That's some unsweetened shredded coconut. (Mmmm.) And we have 1 cup
of light whipped topping. I think I'm seeing a trend here, light and sugar-free.
Light. Light. Yes. Reduced sugar. So I cut the calories in half and reduced the sugar by three-quarters by doing these swaps.
And then I'll have you use that. There's a quarter of a teaspoon of
coconut extract in there. So once you get that mixed, once you get everything in
there, just mix it up and then you can pour it into the popsicle mold. Now where'd you get these guys?
Well, you can find them at any grocery store. They have all
different sizes, as you can see, but you could find them really in most of the
you know, the kitchen section of the grocery stores or, you know, Bed Bath and Beyond or Amazon will carry them.
So you have the mint chocolate chip.
Ooo, mint chocolate! I love that! I started with the chocolate-based
pudding and then I will have you add some mini chocolate chips. Your light
whipped topping, again that's one cup, and you have a couple less ingredients in yours.
You're just going to put a quarter of a teaspoon of mint extract in there.
Oh, okay. This is awesome! So we're kind of putting our own spins on these
pudding pops here. Exactly. And how long do they go they go into the freezer? Overnight.
Freezer overnight. You know one trick I have, I've done popsicles quite a few times,
is if you run them under hot water, they will pop right out.
How perfect is that? So it just takes a couple seconds and here we have our finished... So these guys here are
a little smaller? Yeah. This one is 30 calories 33 calories. Oh wow! This one is 50 and then
if you put them in the bigger guys, then they're going to run you a
little bit higher, so I think it's closer to 90 calories for the coconut and 150
calories for the mint chocolate chip. So we're still keeping it super low in
calories and fat. Right! A delicious sweet treat. I'm gonna start scooping these in.
I just had one more question for you. Yeah. With the pineapple...
any specific, like how do you pick that pineapple out? Well, I made them once with
fresh pineapple and it worked fine and then that was canned
fresh pineapple, so you can do it whatever way you want. Oh, how awesome is that?
This is really fun! I'm just gonna sit here and keep doing this. (Laughter)
It smells delicious. Yeah, doesn't it?
(Laughter) I'm making such a mess! It is a little messy.
I probably should have given you a spoon, that's probably my fault. It's alright.
Ashley began laughing in my ear and I didn't know why!
because I wasn't paying attention!
Oh my gosh, Ashley, thank you so, so much! Lauren, you take the cake on this pudding job.
It smells like you're doing a much
better job than I am. I'm a little messy too, over here. Okay, well we are going to post this recipe at our website
CIProud.com. Lauren, do you think we'll have some melting issues besides
my issues over here today? You know, hang on a sec, I gotta find a napkin.
My hands are little cakey here.
Or batter-y.
I got a napkin.
Pudding pop-y. (Laughter) Pudding pop-y!
(Laughter)
You guys!
(Laughter)
Guys...
Can I just get some credit for continuing with this?
(Laughter)
Let's just put a cap on and call it, alright?
Okay!
We're going to take these away from you. And you wonder why I don't bake.
There's no baking involved in this, Lindsey. Alright, Lauren.
If we had a moment at WMBD, that was it. Oh, my goodness.