Welcome to our Calvin and Hobbes menu! I’ve been looking forward to this one for a REALLY long time. I’ve been a Calvin and Hobbes junky since I was a kid, so making a menu for it has been on my Must Do list ever since I started the blog. However, like my Lord of the Rings menu, I wanted to wait until my cooking skills had come far enough for me to do it justice.
Our first recipe this month is a tribute to Hobbes and his dashing tiger stripes. They’re the subject of many a poem in the comics, so of course I wanted to make a recipe for them here. I’ve seen lots of tiger stripe breads, cupcakes, and cookies online, but I wanted to do something a little different. Since it’s been UNGODLY hot out lately, I’ve been craving frozen treats, so I decided to make popsicles!
As an appetizer, this recipe needed to be healthy, so I used fresh fruit to make the stripes in these tiger stripe popsicles. The white stripes are dragon fruit, orange are mango, and black are blueberry! Enjoy! 🙂
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Tiger Stripe Popsicles: An AWR Original Recipe
The zebra’s stripes are lacking hues,
so they don’t compare to you-know-whose.
Orange, black, and white is what to wear!
It’s haute couture for those who dare!
It’s camouflage, and stylish, too!
Yes, tigers look the best, it’s true!
— “An Ode to Tigers” from The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes
INGREDIENTS:
- 1 pint blueberries
- 2 tbsp water
- 1 tbsp honey, optional
- 2 mangoes
- 1 dragon fruit
Makes approx. 8 popsicles
INSTRUCTIONS:
- In a medium saucepan, combine your blueberries, water, and honey. Heat on medium-low for 5 minutes until the berries are plump and soft, stirring regularly. Remove from heat and press the fruit through a wire mesh strainer over a small bowl. Save the blueberry juice in the bowl and discard the fruit pulp. Set the bowl aside.
- While the berry juice cools, peel and dice your mango and puree in a blender. Peel and dice your dragon fruit and mash it in a bowl with a potato masher or the bottom of a glass until mostly smooth.
We’re mashing the dragon fruit rather than pureeing it so the seeds don’t get pulverized (which would turn the mix gray). - Add a couple spoonfuls of dragon fruit to the bottom of your popsicle molds. Add an equal amount of mango, then blueberry juice. Place in the freezer for an hour and a half. Freezing halfway through assembling the popsicles is what allows the blueberry juice to be solid enough to hold up the next 3 layers (if you don’t have time for this, just double the thickness of your layers so you only have to do 3 total. The effect isn’t as cool, but it’s faster).
- Repeat your layers and place the popsicle molds in the freezer for 3 hours or until frozen through.
- Run the popsicle molds under hot water and gently ease out the popsicles.
- Serve on a hot day to your favorite tiger friend.
Since blueberry juice can stain, I’d serve these in bowls or in a poolside situation where you don’t have to worry about clothes getting stained.
Check out some of my other frozen recipes!
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