Mojito Ice Pops Recipes

Steps:

• In a small saucepan, bring sugar and 2 cups water to a boil over high. Reduce heat and simmer, stirring occasionally, until sugar dissolves. Remove from heat, stir in mint, and let syrup cool, 30 minutes.
• Pour syrup through a fine-mesh sieve into a medium bowl, pressing on solids (you should have about 3 1/4 cups syrup); discard solids. Stir lime juice into syrup. Fill ten 3-ounce ice-pop molds three-quarters full with syrup. Freeze until slushy, 45 minutes. With an ice-pop stick, submerge 1 lime slice and 1 mint leaf in each pop. Insert ice-pop sticks and freeze until solid, 6 hours (or up to 2 weeks).

Steps:

• Cut 6 cups strawberries in half, then slice the remaining 1 cup strawberries. Divide the sliced strawberries among 18 (3-ounce) pop molds. Set the halved strawberries aside.
• In a blender, combine the remaining strawberries and mint leaves, agave, lime juice, and rum, if using. With the motor running, gradually add the seltzer water and blend until the mixture becomes smooth enough to pour.
• Divide the mixture among the prepared molds and top with the remaining 1/4 cup mint. Add the ice pop sticks to the molds. Freeze 4 to 6 hours or until solid.