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Fig & Coconut Popsicles

Chelsea Harrison11 Comments
Fig & Coconut Popsicles

Life has been happening so fast recently, I can hardly keep up.  In the last two weeks I graduated from Yoga Teacher Training, taught a workshop at Brooklyn Grange Rooftop Farm, and....got engaged!  So please forgive me for sharing this recipe that I have already posted on Into The Gloss.  These super simple popsicles are so delicious that they deserve to be posted twice anyway.  They are dangerously good.  You have been warned.

Fig & Coconut Popsicles

Ingredients:

2 cups coconut milk (use at room temperature so that the honey can combine)
1/2 cup honey
1/2 vanilla bean scraped
pinch of salt
4 fresh figs, thinly sliced

Combine all ingredients except for the figs in a large bowl and whisk to combine.  Place fig slices into the popsicle molds and press against the sides.  Pour the mix into the molds and freeze.  If you don't have popsicle molds, paper cups work well too.  Makes 6 popsicles. 

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