Can anyone tell me where I can buy small ice lolly moulds?

[WLmum]

Given the fab sunny weather I would like to give home made ice lollies a go but have only found big moulds. My dcs don't currently eat lollies or ice cream and I think too big will be off putting for them. Any suggestions on where I can buy or how I can make little lollies. Any recipe ideas also welcome. Thanks gang!

I just bought these for DD. I saw some in Sainsbury's today for around £2.50.

I was going to try a traffic light type ice lolly with mashed banana (never tried them frozen...they're supposed to be delicious) blueberries and kiwi fruit

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I thicken fruit juice with corn flour so that it doesn't drip as much.

Lakeland?

Thanks, like the look of the ones Lets recommended as one of the reviews specifically says not too big. Like the suggestion in the review of frozen yoghurt too, natural with pureed strawbs for starters perhaps.

Mousy - doesn't the cornflour give a floury taste? I wonder about thickening with baby rice?

We use Innocent fruit smoothie and they don't drip.

I heat about 100ml in a pan with an added heaped teaspoon cornflour. whisk until it's not cloudy anymore (just before boiling point) then take off the heat and add the rest of the juice. this way corn flour is tasteless and not floury at all.

I'm being serious here... would toothpicks in icecube trays work? If not why not?

no, because they are round and small. you need spmething flat (and you don't really want toothpicks in toddler hands.

Muji have some silicon moulds at the moment, you can only make two lollies at a time, but they are a nice slimline size

We have these exact ones, and they're great.

Toothpicks wouldn't work, even for adults, because I think they would be very hard to hold, especially as the melting ice lolly gradually dripped down the toothpick. You need something with a bigger handle, and a bit where the drips catch (as per my link).

LetsKateWin - I'd mix the mashed banana with a bit of fruit juice, or milk, or yoghurt, before freezing. Otherwise it won't fill the mould properly. Or whizz the banana with one of those liquids in a blender before pouring in the mould.

Whizzed tin of lychee (including the juice) makes a delicious lolly. Same with a tin of pear in fruit juice. Any kind of smoothie can be frozen (homemade or bought). Even just apple / orange juice (although then lolly is then very hard as it's basically just a stick of flavoured ice, not that DD minds).

Mmmmm...

Thanks Wigeon. I did a bit of Googling before I made them and discovered that I would need to mix in a bit of milk. It ended up being more of a blueberry/banana ripple lolly. DD absolutely loved it and wanted me to "go and buy more from the shop" when it finished.

The moulds are great aren't they. Perfect size, though DD would like them to be a little bigger.

I got some in ikea during the week - am actually thinking they might be too small for ds (age 11)

If you can only make a small amount get some freezer bags pop them in then you can make more thats what im off to do. The kids and me love em thats why i make and pop in bags so they keep going