Six iced tea popsicles on a silver platter.

5 from 1 vote

Iced Tea Popsicles

These iced tea popsicles are slightly sweet, infused with lemon, and unthinkably easy to make. In fact, we've taken to making them year-round.

Prep Time10

Freeze time1

Total Time1

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings: servings

Calories: 18

Equipment

Popsicle molds & sticks (or substitute paper cups and popsicle sticks)

Ingredients

▢ 1/2 ounce loose-leaf tea, (yes, you’re allowed to tear tea bags open)
▢ 2 cups cold water
▢ Juice of 1/2 lemon, or to taste
▢ 3 tablespoons granulated sugar, or to taste

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Instructions

Place the tea and cold water in a bowl and let steep overnight.
The next day, strain the tea, discarding the solids. Stir in the lemon juice and sugar until dissolved. Taste and adjust with a bit more of either or both lemon and sugar to suit your tastes, bearing in mind that both flavors will be less apparent when frozen. Pour the tea into your popsicle molds (or paper cups) and freeze for 1 hour.
After 1 hour, push the popsicle sticks into the molds (or paper cups). The popsicles should be just frozen enough to support the sticks so they remain upright and are half in and half out of the molds. Pop the popsicle molds back in the freezer until frozen solid, at least overnight.
To release the popsicles from the molds, run the molds under warm water for just the briefest of moments.

Notes

Arnold Palmer Popsicles

Reader Sherry Watkins suggested an Arnold Palmer variation of these iced tea popsicles would be divine. We’re not going to argue. You may want to add slightly less sugar, depending on your sweet tooth. [Editor’s Note: An Arnold Palmer, for those not familiar with the summer sipper named for the late and great American golf icon, is a concoction that’s half iced tea and half lemonade.)

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