A Work in Progress: June's Pop Recipes

You may not have noticed, but I am delinquent on my wrap-up of June's recipes. The embarrasing truth: I haven't made my recipe yet! *Gasp* I know, it's quite pathetic. I mean, it's my challenge after all, what am I thinking? But instead of making you wait any longer, I'm going to go ahead and post the recipes of those people who DID in fact get their ducks in a row and actually met my challenge! Once I do make mine, I will come back and add it on to this post. So you may want to come visit this one from time to time to see what updates I have made.

Mom's Strawberry Ice Cream

She made up her own recipe! I'm always amazed by people who do this. The recipe--3 whole eggs and 2 egg yolks, 1 3/4c. of sugar, pinch of salt, 1 pint of cream, 2 c.diced strawberries, 1 can of strawberry pop and finish filling w/milk 1 gal ctn 3/4 full. Her review: If you like strawberries, then this homemade ice cream will fill that craving especially on a very hot day. Ahhhhhhh, so yummy!!

My sister made Root Beer Float Cupcakes! She even got to share them with Mom and they both seemed to really enjoy them. They were very moist, but didn't have as much root beer flavor as she was expecting. Check out her review at her blog: My Strongest Life.

Tara made PW's Perfect Pound Cake.

Here are some pictures of the process - Mixing it up

After mixing up the batter -- a long process with all the ingredients and just a hand mixer!! - she popped it into the oven.


Bake, bake, bake, and then out it comes!


Question of advice from our more experienced bakers, how long are you supposed to wait before removing a bundt cake from the pan? Right away? Or do you wait for it to cool? Or just wait a certain amount of time? Does it stick if you wait too long? Or not long enough? The cake tore some, but it didn't affect the taste!


She served it with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. It was very sweet the first day, but after it had a chance to sit a while, it mellowed out and was a really nice pound cake.

There you have it! Maybe these will inspire you to try a new recipe this summer. I think all of these would be good for just about any hot summer day!

I was going back and forth about my decision for July's theme. I discussed it with my sister and my friends. Then I read somewhere that July is National Ice Cream Month and that decided it for me. ICE CREAM shall be the theme for July. Check out what Wikipedia has to say: Ronald Reagan designated July as National Ice Cream Month in 1984.[1] He also appointed the third Sunday in July as National Ice Cream Day. Reagan recognized the popularity of ice cream in the United States (90% of the nation's population consumes ice cream) and stated that these two events should be observed with "appropriate ceremonies and activities."

I just couldn't pass it up. Sorry Mom, I know you just made ice cream, but maybe you won't mind making a different kind? Or even a different variation? Be free with your ideas this month. This is not restricted to making just homemade ice cream -- although that is a great option and everyone might choose to do so! But you could make ice cream cake, a pie that calls for ice cream, I saw a cake that included ice cream in the batter. There are many choices! I'll come back with a post in a few days giving you some possible options I have run across. I hope you have fun with this month's theme! Maybe it will help us all stay cool during this summer heat :o)

To life... full of ice cream!