Creamy & Healthy Homemade Fudgesicles

Hey Mamas!

It’s almost the long weekend!!! I’m so excited to be spending some quality outdoor time at my aunts cottage.

Last year my daughter spent the whole weekend collecting snails and naming them snailee. What a great time! This year my son will def be joining in the snail collecting fun.

In celebration of the first long weekend of our glorious summer, I wanted to share my one-blender fudgesicle recipe. I say one blender, cause many fudgesicle recipes I’ve seen, you have to melt the chocolate chips, and the maple syrup and this and that over the stove, and then let it cool blah blah blah blah, and it just takes too many dishes, too much time, and has me using every dish in the house (that’s what my hubby would say!) He totally exaggerates though!

But seriously, it’s human nature to take the path of least resistance, right? So for this recipe I’m taking the easy way out – no melting chocolate chips, no stove top cooking. You do however have to cook the one secret ingredient, which happens to be a very powerful vegetable.

Seriously, no one will ever guess what the secret vegetable is in these bad boys! Not even the pickiest of your kids. So if you have kids you’re trying to sneak healthy food into…this is one recipe you can feel good about.

Heck we’ve even had these bad boys for breakfast (on a weekend where they just wanted to play outside and then I fed them eggs for morning snack – so it all worked out, they just ate their meal and snack in reverse order!)

Back to the hidden vegetable.

Wanna guess what is it?

Drum roll please!!!!

The secret ingredient is…..

It’s not avocados. Although I’m sure that would work and makes me think I should try it next time.

I’m sure they’d be really creamy.

The secret ingredient is… SWEET POTATO.

Yup, half a sweet potato.

You gotta cook it though and that’s not a biggie if you plan to have leftovers from dinner, or if you have an instant pot like I do, and the sweet potato takes 12 minutes to cook! (amazing right?!)

So make these bad boys this weekend and tell me how you loved them!

For those food buffs who want another reason to eat healthy popsicles made with sweet potato, check out the nutrition goodness this sweet treat provides:

Energy & blood sugar regulation – sweet potatoes are a complex carbohydrate and provide our bodies with energy and also slow down digestion. Meaning we have energy over a sustained period of time, (say good-bye to rollercoaster blood sugar and mood lows and highs) and feel fuller longer.

Promote relaxation and boost your mood- The magnesium in the cacao powder helps to relax your blood vessels promoting a more relaxed feeling, and boosting your mood at the same time.

Increased Immunity- The high vitamin A content in sweet potato; just one cup of sweet potato gives you 214% of your daily intake of Vitamin A which helps support our night vision. Vitamin A also helps support our immune system which is very important during pregnancy and postpartum as no pregnant mama or new mama wants to get sick.

Fertility – For mamas looking to become pregnant, vitamin A in carotenoids are believed to help in female reproduction.

Postpartum Healing – the vitamin C content of sweet potatoes help produce more collagen in our body which is needed for wound healing.  Think vaginal tearing, episiotomy, or C section. Collagen is important for nice skin, as well as build stronger more resilient connective tissue that has become stretched (ie: the connective tissue between our right and left rectus abdominus walls leading to diastasis recti / abdominal separation).

Lastly, vitamin C produces serotonin that is needed to boost our mood and mental health, while helping to decrease stress. What mama wouldn’t love some help getting rid of baby brain?!

Now go make them and tell me how much you and your kiddos loved them!!