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    » Home » Recipes » Summer Fruit Recipes » Blackberry Mint Popsicles

    Blackberry Mint Popsicles

    Posted: Oct 14, 2016 · Updated: Oct 24, 2020 by Jenny McGruther · This site earns income from ads, affiliate links, and sponsorships.

    Blackberry Mint Popsicles: Lightly sweetened with maple syrup, these blackberry mint popsicles offer a beautiful, bright flavor. Whipped cream, infused with the bright notes of fresh mint, makes for a lovely addition.

    Blackberries represent summer more than any other fruit. Whether you live in the country and find yourself surrounded by the masses of prolific shrubs, or you drive to where they’re growing, abundant wild berries that taste of sun and earth beckon, even during the hottest of afternoons of summer.

    While you might wander along picking berries, staining your hands, and watching your children’s mouths burst into purple smiles, there’s always the question of what to do with the berries that you manage to bring home.

    Have you noticed that wild mint often grows near to wild blackberries: mint, blooming with its teeny, fragrant, purple blossoms, neighbored by the protruding tendrils of blackberry canes? We like to pick the mint as the contentment of abundant berries in our bellies inspires and amble home to make this family treat.

    Eaten together, blackberries and mint are exciting and surprising, yet complimentary. Steeping the mint in fresh, raw cream and then whipping it is delicious. Cream is comfort food. Whipping it aerates the flavors, making them more accessible. So when you taste herb-infused whipped cream you taste first the cream, the gentle sweetness, then you taste the herb in its mystery and charm. Mint is one of the world’s most lovable flavors, and paired with blackberries summer is indeed accentuated. You taste the port-like richness of the berries, flavors of pine and jam, tart and sweet. You taste mint, sweet, and cooling.

    Kids will love not only helping you to pick the berries and mint. They’ll love measuring the leaves. They’ll love pressing the berry puree through a colander to extract all the good juice from the seeds. And after a wait of several hours, you’ll love sharing this very special treat together.

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    Blackberry Mint Popsicles

    Lightly sweetened with maple syrup, these blackberry mint popsicles offer a beautiful, bright flavor. Whipped cream, infused with the bright notes of fresh mint, makes for a lovely addition.
    Prep Time20 mins
    Total Time20 mins
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    Ingredients

    Blackberry Puree

    • 3 cups blackberries
    • 6 tablespoons Grade A dark maple syrup

    Fresh Mint Whipped Cream

    • 2 tablespoons water
    • 3 tablespoons Grade A dark maple syrup
    • ½ cup fresh mint roughly chopped if leaves are large
    • 1 cup heavy cream preferably raw

    Instructions

    • Place a medium metal mixing bowl into the refrigerator to chill.
    • Place the blackberries and maple syrup into a small saucepan. Heat over medium, and bring to a simmer. Cook about 4 minutes for fresh berries and 7 minutes for frozen berries, or until the berries release their juices, melting into one another. Cool 10 minutes. Puree in a blender 10 seconds.
    • Pour the pureed berries through a fine-mesh stainless steel strainer, nested over a bowl. Press the berries thoroughly to extract all liquid. Discard the seeds. Set the strained puree aside to cool completely.
    • Place the water, maple syrup and fresh mint into a small saucepan. Bring to a simmer, stirring briefly, and then turn off the heat and allow the mint to steep in the sweetened water for 15 minutes. Pour the infused syrup through a fine mesh sieve, pressing on the solids to extract all the liquid. Place the syrup in refrigerator to cool completely
    • Using a chilled metal bowl, whip the cream about 1 minute 45 seconds, or until soft peaks form. Still beating, slowly pour in the cooled mint syrup.
    • Alternate spooning the mixtures into popsicle molds (We use these stainless steel popsicle molds.) Attach popsicle sticks and popsicle mold bases. Freeze at least four hours, or until solid.
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    Blackberry Mint Popsicles: Lightly sweetened with maple syrup, these blackberry mint popsicles offer a beautiful, bright flavor. Whipped cream, infused with the bright notes of fresh mint, makes for a lovely addition.
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