Oreo Ice Cream Popsicles

cookies and cream popsicles with Oreo cookies

These cookies and cream popsicles are creamy and delicious because they're loaded with crushed Oreos, healthy yogurt, and sweet cream. This is an easy low sugar treat that kids can help make. Even adults will love this frozen treat! Pull out this recipe for any summer BBQ, holiday picnic, or 4th of July party!

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Prep Time 5

Freeze time 4

Total Time 4 5

Course Dessert

Servings popsicles

Calories 361 kcal

Equipment

Ingredients

20 Oreo cookies divided
1 cups heavy cream
¾ cups plain yogurt okay to use Greek or plain coconut yogurt too
2 tablespoons caster sugar see note below
1 teaspoon vanilla bean paste see note below

Instructions

Place 14 Oreo cookies in a small bowl and roughly crush them with a potato masher. This will give you large pieces which I think are quite nice in the popsicles. Alternately, you could place them into a zippered freezer bag and use a rolling pin to crush them. This will give you crumbs for your popsicles. Also nice, but not my personal preference.
In a second bowl, mix the heavy cream with plain yogurt. Then add caster sugar and vanilla extract. Stir. Add the crushed cookies and stir again until is all well combined.
Next, chop one Oreo cookie into bite-sized pieces and place those large pieces into one well of your popsicle mold. Repeat with 5 more Oreo cookies, placing the pieces of one cookie into each mold.
Spoon the yogurt mixture into the popsicle molds until the molds are full. Place a popsicle stick in each mold, being careful that it is in the center of the yogurt mixture and completely covered within the popsicle (otherwise the popsicle will fall off the stick when you try to eat it).
Freeze the popsicles for 4 hours or until completely solid.

Notes

Ingredients notes

Caster sugar vs. granulated sugar

Caster sugar is also labeled as extra fine or superfine sugar. Basically, it is milled into smaller particles than traditional granulated white sugar. If you can't find it or don't want to buy some for 2 tablespoons' worth, it is okay to use plain white sugar. Just be forewarned that your popsicles might be slightly gritty if you don't use the superfine stuff.

Vanilla extract vs. vanilla bean paste

I have switched over from using vanilla extract to using vanilla paste almost exclusively but continue to include vanilla extract in my recipes because that's what most people have.

Vanilla extract is an alcohol-based liquid with the consistency of water. To make it, vanilla beans are soaked in alcohol for a long time (like many months). There are no actual vanilla beans in extract.

Vanilla paste on the other hand is a combination of highly concentrated vanilla extract, vanilla bean powder, and a binder (which can be either xanthum gum or corn syrup, read the label). It is the consistency of Elmer's glue.

The reason I prefer vanilla paste is that, aside from having actual vanilla beans inside, the paste has a richer, more bold flavor, and it has no alcohol taste when it is not cooked. I hate the bitter flavor that traditional vanilla extract gives foods that are not cooked. That bitterness cooks off when heated, but in recipes like popsicles, buttercream, and overnight oats, the alcohol stays in and can taint the flavor if you are heavy handed with it (as I often am).

To lighten the recipe

Given the amount of heavy cream in this recipe, it can't really be labeled healthy.

BUT if you are calorie conscious, it is easy to adjust the recipe to suit your diet without losing much in the way of flavor.

First, substitute plain Greek yogurt for the plain traditional yogurt. This will increase the protein and lower the fat.

Second, decrease the heavy cream to ½ cup and increase the yogurt to 1 ¼ cups.

Third, you could leave out the sugar (although I don't - you will have popsicles that pretty much taste like frozen yogurt) or substitute honey, agave nectar, maple syrup, or another sweetener of your choice.

Storing leftover popsicles

You can store leftover popsicles in airtight containers (such as plastic freezer bags or plastic or glass containers made for the freezer) for up to 2 months. After that, they won't spoil, but the quality will decrease quickly, and you won't want to eat them.

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Keyword frozen, ice cream, Oreo, popsicle

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