Today is supposed to be the hottest day of the month for many of us in the Midwest. Heat indexes are going to be ranging from stupid hot to just plain ridiculous and we're doing everything we can to keep our cool without melting into a puddle on the floor. To help, try one of these 5 foods frozen instead of their normal room temperature state!
1. Graham Crackers & Icing/Whipped Cream: We promise that after you've had this snack, you might forgo ice cream sandwiches all together. Just press a small amount of icing or whipped cream between two crackers, wrap in plastic or parchment and freeze!
2. Rice Pudding: Although we usually eat this chilled anyway, freezing it takes this sweet treat to a whole new level of awesome. Simply freeze in a mold and lick away just a traditional popsicle! You can of course freeze any puddings with the same super star results.
3. Fruit: Although we have our favorites (pineapple and grapes come to mind), most fruits are absolutely amazing when frozen. Just pop them in on a sheet tray and after a few minutes of thawing, they're a sweet, icy and easy to consume if you skewer them up first!
4. Soda: Although we'd much rather make our own (and you still can), a frozen can of soda when coupled with a spoon is an iced slushy of seriously tasty proportions. No need to rake it like you would a granita, just let it freeze solid and dig in.
5. Cereal: Although the cereal doesn't actually freeze in solid chunks, dropping its temperature before you add milk is the iciest way to start a morning we know of (sans smoothie). It can cool you off after a morning jog, or just lower your temperature if you're sweating it out without air conditioning. Just toss it in a zip top bag and in the freezer it goes!
Do you have another one to add to the list? Almost anything sweet can be frozen with super star results. Try freezing cake slices, brownies, or box juice drinks (organic and healthy or not) and slice their tops off for instant popsicles! Let us know your favorite frozen treat below!
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We like to pour a can of Hansen's Root Beer in our KitchenAid ice cream maker for a delicious slushy, even better with a scoop of vanilla ice cream!
My kids love frozen GoGurt (yogurt in tubes).
Any yogurt just for a lil bit - comes out like mousse
along the lines of #4--frozen capri sun! yummm!
I used to love putting frozen raspberries in my Crispix with almond milk and pecans. It makes the whole thing icy and so good!
cheez-its
slightly underbaked chocolate chip (or choc. chip oatmeal) cookies - best with mini chocolate chips, the bigger chips are tough frozen.
When I was a kid, my mom would put the small cans of welches grape juice (not sure if they make them anymore) in the freezer and we'd eat them with a grapefruit spoon. The sugary part separates to the top and gets syrupy and its the first thing you tear through before slushy grape.
My Nana makes the BEST homemade icing with a slight lemony taste. We grew up eating graham cracker/icing sandwiches! I LOVED when she'd make a cake because she'd always make way too much icing. We'd take a big bowl home with us and keep the sandwiches in the fridge wrapped in plastic wrap. They never lasted long... SO YUMMY!
I don't know if this counts as frozen cereal, but Rice Chex in ice cream is one of my favorite treats! It's like having the crunch of a cone without a battle of sugary flavors.
Thin mints and the coconut ones from Girl Scouts.
Cherry tomatoes.
Nuts (which live there anyway so they don't go rancid) & seeds over granola.
Chocolate chips or chocolate with caramel in it. Or andes mints.
Any cookie with a jammy middle.
I like to eat frozen peas right out of the bag. My mom's dog loved this too.
Frozen soda is the best - when I was kid and had leftover fast-food drinks, mom would pop them in the freezer instead of throwing them away. Dessert that night!
Most candy is great frozen. My favorites are Peanut chews, snickers and Charleston Chews.
Girl Scout Trefoils. First discovered because I hoard them all year!
Girl Scout thin mints are also good frozen. Really, almost any chocolatey cookie is good frozen. Same with chocolate covered pretzels.
big chunks of seedless watermelon! So nice and cool and crunchy :)
Oh man. Frozen black grapes.
HEAVEN.
Frozen mini marshmallows.
You all might think I'm crazy, but I have 2 recommendations that are nothing short of delicious:
1. Frozen bananas - You'll never want ice cream again!! (Just make sure to peel them before freezing)
2. Lay's dill pickle chips - Call me crazy, but they really taste different when frozen. You still get the dill pickle flavour, but the new texture adds something inexplicable.
TWIX!!!!!!! They're so much better, I refuse to eat them unless they're frozen. And for some reason, the mini ones are better than the regular sized ones.
Grapes!
Peanut butter
Thin Mints and Twix. I don't like to eat them any other way.
yogurt or chocolate covered pretzels!!
i love my frozen after eight mints!
I love hearing about everyone's childhood frozen treats!
My mom made sweet red bean or sweet green bean soup to freeze it into popsicles for us. I make them now too but if I’m lazy I buy red bean ice cream or mochi instead. It's not really the same, it doesn't have the clean flavors of the frozen dessert. And I can't even find sweet green bean items commercially in the States. Tri-color dessert is the closest I get.
I also love any banana bread straight out of the freezer. Same with pound cake, mostly Sara Lee's frozen pound cake, esp. the marbled version (but I can never find it anymore!). Maybe I should try it with own pound cake too
I love to freeze Jello. It tastes delicious frozen and is more satisfying because it lasts longer that way. It has to be regular Jello though, because the sugar-free doesn't freeze right and gets very hard and icy.
I remember eating frozen graham cracker and chocolate pudding sandwiches as a kid. Those were delicious. I hate icing/frosting, so I would use pudding instead if I were to make those now.
Little Debbie Fig Bars. So good. Let them thaw a minute before eating.
Frozen homemade chocolate chip cookies! Yum
I absolutely love reading everyone's frozen fixes! Love this!
When I was a kid living in Texas my friends and I would eat frozen peas- our parents were confused and pleased at the same time!
Now I work at a small bakery with a big freezer- I now love cake right out of the freezer as well as spritz cookies sprinkled with sugar. I won't eat the spritz cookies any other way now.
and as a life-long scout I can attest that frozen Thin Mints are heavenly!
Frozen yoplait whips – tastes like a light fluffy fro-yo!
I know I'm a little late to the conversation, but do be careful when freezing soda cans, especially once they melt a little! There are quite a few charter buses in my state that have soda stains on the ceilings because my mom used to love to include frozen soda cans as a special treat on field trips.
Frozen peas...