Summer calls for fresh fruity flavours to enjoy with all of your loved ones, like these watermelon ice lollies with ginger and edible flowers.

MAKES 8 // COOKING TIME 20 min plus overnight freezing time

INGREDIENTS
8 wooden ice-cream sticks
½ cup sugar
3 cm piece of ginger, finely sliced
½ cup fresh lemon juice
1½ cups watermelon juice (blended and strained)
Edible flowers

METHOD
1. Soak the ice-cream sticks in water for one hour.
2. Combine ½ cup water and the sugar in a saucepan over medium heat. Stir until the sugar is dissolved. Add the ginger and leave to infuse for a few hours.
3. Remove and discard the ginger pieces.
4. Combine the sugar syrup, lemon juice and watermelon juice and mix well.
5. Divide the mixture between 8 ice-lolly moulds and push the flowers into the sides.
6. Freeze for at least one hour and then insert the soaked sticks. Freeze overnight.
7. Run warm water over the moulds to loosen the lollies.

Recipe & styling: Diane Heierli
Photography: Christoph Heierli

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Our fruity yoghurt lollies make a healthy summer dessert. The yoghurt is full of calcium for strong teeth and bones, so it’s a great snack option for your kids as well. Make them in empty yoghurt containers, or in shot glasses for mini versions.

Makes 6–10 // Cooking time 1 hour, plus freezing time

Ingredients

2 cups plain yoghurt
1 tsp vanilla essence
200 g frozen strawberries, hulled, half sliced
3 kiwis, peeled
3 granadillas, pulp only
Handful frozen cherries, chopped
Handful frozen blueberries

Method

1. Mix the yoghurt and vanilla, then divide between 4 bowls.
2. Purée the strawberries in a food processor. Remove. Purée the kiwis.
3. Mix the strawberry purée, kiwi purée and granadilla pulp into 3 of the bowls of yoghurt. Leave the last bowl plain.
4. Pour the yoghurt into the moulds, adding the strawberries, cherries and blueberries as you go. To create the layers, pour a little yoghurt into the mould, then place in the freezer for about 45 minutes, until almost fully frozen. Then add the next layer and freeze for another 45 minutes.
5. Insert ice-lolly sticks (or teaspoons) into the semi-frozen lollies, then freeze for 3–6 hours until frozen solid.
6. To release the ice lollies from their containers, run under hot water for 5 seconds. Serve immediately.

Also read: Frozen banana breakfast tart with pineapple and coconut

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