Cool Summer Poptails & Mocksicles
Popsicles are a refreshing treat as temperatures rise on hot summer days. Try combining fresh organic summer fruit, edible flowers, and your favorite sparkling wine, champagne, or prosecco to make the most cool and beautiful hand-crafted ”poptails.”
Above: Fresh fruit and your favorite bubbly make these frozen pops a tasty cool treat.
Purple pansies and other edible flowers add a colorful garden to style your pops.
Float your poptail in a bath of ice cold bubbly for more flavor and easy elegant serving.
Poptails could not be simpler to make and are a great way to use ripened summer fruit, herbs, and colorful blooms from your organic garden or farmer’s market purchases. Chemical-free pansies, rose, calendula and borage petals are just a few edible flowers we used to add more color and garden style. Add to that a selection of your favorite sparkling wines, champagnes, and prosecco. We used locally produced Korbel California Champagne and Korbel Prosecco for our poptails.
Selection of Korbel California Champagnes used in our pops.
Of course, we have included ‘mocksicle’ recipes, an alcohol-free version of our frozen poptails that are kid-friendly treats. Bubbly or not, these refreshing popsicles are perfect on a hot summer day! Try these delicious, easy-to-make poptails all summer long! Find recipes starting on page 34 in our Flowers and Grapes Summer Issue. Enjoy!
Classic champagne cocktail recipes become frozen adult treats. Just substitute white grape juice to make a non-alcoholic mocksicle.