Acai Bowl Popsicles

Love both acai bowls and healthy homemade popsicles? These acai bowl popsicles are an easy homemade popsicle recipe, full of fruit and refined sugar free.

It’s officially summer, and our latest invention for the season is these acai bowl popsicles! What’s a better summer project than healthy homemade popsicles? Homemade popsicles are a perfect activity for both kids and adults. And these acai bowl popsicles are easy and delicious, loaded with fruit but no refined sugar. They’re a play on the popular acai bowl, one of my favorite foods. I’ve had refreshing acai bowls just about everywhere, from Indianapolis to Nashville to a food truck in Montana. Here, Alex and I have taken the flavor of an acai bowl and made it into superfood popsicle form! Because who wouldn’t want to eat an acai bowl…on a stick? Keep reading for how to make homemade popsicles, in the style of that ulta delicious smoothie bowl.

Related: Homemade Acai Bowl Recipe

Wait, what’s an acai bowl?

If you’re never had an acai bowl, it’s a smoothie bowl made with the superfood acai berries. Many times the bowls are sprinkled with toppings like fruit, granola, coconut and almond butter. The berries grow on palm trees and are native to Brazil. Acai bowls are a popular dish in Brazil, and they’ve now become very popular here in the US because of their apparent health properies. Acai berries are known as a superfood, and are loaded with antioxidants and lots of other nutrients. There are lots of superfoods that are just as great and easier to access here in the US (blueberries, for example), but the acai berry brings a unique flavor and is fun to experiment with!

How do I find acai?

Acai berries are native to Brazil, but due to the popularity of acai bowls, packs of frozen acai pulp are now widely available online or even in stores. We found acai pulp packs at our local Whole Foods. Sambazon is a well-known brand that sells acai and has sustainable harvesting practices.

How to make homemade popsicles?

Making homemade popsicles is a fun summer project and allows you to customize your pops to flavors you could never find at the store! You can also control the added sugar and ingredients to make for healthier popsicles. All you need to make healthy homemade popsicles is a popsicle mold: here’s the popsicle mold that we use.

For this acai bowl popsicle recipe, we’ve used frozen acai pulp (see above), frozen pineapple, apple juice, and a bit of maple syrup. Because freezing a popsicle decreases the perception of sweetness, this mixture is a lot sweeter than we’d make a typical acai bowl. Take note that if you try the unfrozen mixture, it will taste much sweeter than the frozen popsicle. This is something we’ve learned while researching how to make popsicles with fruit.

*This post is especially for Popsicle Week, a fun week organized by Billy of Wit & Vinegar where food bloggers around world make popsicle recipes — just for fun! Click over for all the new popsicle recipes.

We hope you love the recipe: let us know what you think in the comments below!

Looking for more healthy homemade popsicle recipes?

Here are a few of our favorite healthy homemade popsicle recipes:

• Chocolate Drizzled Peanut Butter Popsicles

• Cookie Dough Glow Pops

Looking for more fruit dessert recipes?

Outside of this acai bowl popsicles, here are a few of our favorite fruit dessert recipes on A Couple Cooks!

• The Best Peach Pie Recipe
• Granola Instant Pot Apple Crisp
• Tart Cherry Chocolate Galette
• Easy Bananas Foster Recipe
• Chocolate Banana Bread

This recipe is…

This acai bowl popsicle recipe is vegetarian, vegan, gluten free, plant based, naturally sweet, and refined sugar free.

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