EARLY BIRD GIFT GUIDE: Zoku® Duo Quick Pop™ Maker Review

Want to be the best aunt ever? The favorite uncle

or the spoiling grandparent? I have the coolest gift idea

 the kids will love and can also be fun and healthy too! 

What kid (or adult really..) does not love Popsicles, 

cream sicles, or flavored ice pops?

Making your own can be so much fun and alot more

healthy, but what kid wants to wait ALL DAY for them

to freeze and be ready to enjoy?

You seriously need to check out the 

Zoku® Duo Quick Pop™ Maker!

  I highly recommend the Quick Pops Recipe book as well, 

its full of great ideas as well as tips and ideas of what to 

use and what not to use to make the best pops.

 This little gizmo is the coolest thing ever! No electricity or 

batteries needed! Just keep in your freezer! You can freeze 

three batches ( 6-2oz. pops total) of your own homemade pops

right in front of you! The first batch in 7 minutes, the second batch

in about 9 and the third about 11..the longer the base sits out 

the longer they take to freeze faster but still so much fun for the

kids to watch it happen. It also takes longer if you choose to 

do designs and layer the pops or make an inner layer.

 It is for sure a fun family night activity!

We got out a few random ingredients after

we chose some ideas from the Quick Pop 
recipe book and had fun making them. I think 

because you do have to freeze the base after 

three batches for another 24 hours it would be

fun for our family size to have the Zoku® Quick 

Pop maker that makes three pops at a time and

can move a little faster. We made up the purees 

we wanted to have all before we took the 
base out of the freezer so they were ready to go. 

For the first batch we added a few bananas inside the base 

against the sides, added the sticks then poured in a 
strawberry layer and a banana layer and patiently waited...

Once the time was up you screw on the pull tool and it pops them

out for you easily. Unscrew and lift it out and you are ready to 

enjoy a delicious homemade pop made by you!

The Strawberry Banana Pops were really good and the kids 

ate them super quick, and it was nice to know what as in 

them. We also tried the Pumpkin Pie recipe, it was good too..

 but the kids were not so sure they liked the strong pumpkin

flavor to it. I think I would cut down a little of the pumpkin

and add a little more vanilla pudding layer. It as fun to try! 

You can see the pudding layer above but my layers were 

not very obvious. The next batch we made was CPB 

(Chocolate Peanut Butter) You have to heat both layers

on the stove when you make it, but it was really quick

and easy. Each layer is made with PB, sugar, water,

milk, pinch of salt, and a few other things. For some reason

they didn't work too well to come out of the base..we let it

set longer and tried a few things but it didn't attach to 

the stick very well, we need to try that one over but the taste

was super good and we still ate them. YUM! 

We used the vanilla mixture base and also made some 

other pops with added fruit pieces of kiwi, strawberry and

raspberry. Very yummy! We added a few chocolate chips

to some and some of the strawberry layer as well.

Don't they look delicious! So much fun!

 So many great recipes on our list of what we want to try both

fancy like these and a little more simple juice pops. 

We have some mini cookie cutters we plan on adding some

apple cutouts as well as some other fun designs!

The fun can almost be endless!

If you check them out on Amazon or William-Sonoma

you can see the fun kits they also sell to help add even 

more fun to making them with as well as many tools to help

you get creative and storage for your complete pops!

(photo credits from william-sonoma)

 **we were sent the Zoku® Duo Quick Pop™ Maker for review only, 
but all opinions are completely our own. Thanks!

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