Zoku Tartufo

This recipe in the book we got with our pile of Zoku presents caught my eye. I love chocolate and cherries, especially together. It's so pretty they used it for the cover. This time I had just enough mix leftover for 1 pop so I made one for me. After removing M's I started a second without refreezing first. It did take longer, and really isn't a good plan. It was fine since I was busy cleaning anyway, but no way a child will wait in a line 30 minutes long.

I halved the recipe in the book, because I didn't want leftover mix today, and this way it only uses one pudding cup. Yes I agree, it's weird, but it worked. The texture was pretty good. Not name brand fudgesicle good, but still good. I didn't have any weird mouth feel the way the melted ice cream one did. I didn't have cherries in mine, because I ran out, but I did dip it in the chocolate.

Ingredients:
1 vanilla pudding cup
1/4 cup water
4 1/2 tsp of sugar
1 1/2 tsp of vanilla
Maraschino cherries
Chocolate quick shell

Whisk the first 4 ingredients together. Cut the cherries into fourths. I used the fruit wand to place the fruit up against the side of the freeze chamber on one side, but the book also mentions just dropping them in as you pour the liquid. It's fairly thick, so if you go slow it shouldn't sink too much.

After the pops are frozen we dipped them into the quick shell using the chocolate station that grandma got us. I would never have bought the silly thing myself, but it does work well. Personally I'd just drizzle the quick shell onto the pops if I didn't have it.

First freeze 12 minutes.
(Second freeze 17 minutes.)

M really enjoyed finding the bits of cherry in the popsicle, and said he loved it. Z ate the cherry bits, and chocolate, but didn't finish her popsicle. She was ready to move onto the rest of her snack.