Summer Pops Of A Different Kind

I love the summer pops on the bay in San Diego, but here's another summer pop you might enjoy. They're cool and refreshing, have no preservatives and no added sugar. To top it off, they're only 30 calories each. Summer pops are easy to make, and if you use your imagination you can make endless varieties of these cool treats. Cherry Ice Pops • 1 cup (about 8 ounces) frozen unsweetened cherries, thawed • 2/3 cup apple juice • 2/3 cup vanilla soy yogurt or vanilla fat-free yogurt Method: Combine cherries and apple juice in a blender and blend until smooth. Add yogurt and blend just until combined. Pour mixture into 8 ice-pop molds, insert sticks and freeze until solid, about 4 hours. (You can also use small, freezable containers like 4-ounce plastic or paper cups or plastic champagne flutes as molds: Fill containers almost full and cover tops with foil, then make a small slit and insert ice-pop sticks or small bamboo skewers.) Dip bases of molds briefly in hot water to loosen and unmold. For variety, change the cherries to strawberries, blueberries or peaches, and change the apple juice to cranberry or pomegranate juice. (to make them even lower in calories, replace the apple juice with the diet cranberry juice). Nutritional Info: Per Serving:30 calories (5 from fat), 0g total fat, 0g saturated fat, 0mg cholesterol, 0mg sodium, 7g carbohydrate (0g dietary fiber, 6g sugar), 1g protein Special Diets: •Fat Free •Gluten Free •Low Sodium •Vegetarian •Wheat Free