Ingredients
- 1 pomegranate
- 1 cup bottled pomegranate juice
- 1/4 cup water
- 1/4 cup simple syrup (recipe below)
- 2 tablespoon vodka
- 2 tablespoon kiwi, peeled and cut into 1/8-inch thick slices
- 2 tablespoon granny smith apples
Preparation
Baking Directions:
Peel open pomegranate and remove seeds.
Add 10 seeds each into 6 (2 oz.)
plastic pop molds.
Mix together pomegranate juice, water, simple syrup, and vodka.
Fill pop molds 3/4 full with mixture and freeze until slushy; reserve remaining mixture.
Insert pop sticks when mixture is a firm slush and freeze completely.
To make kiwi eyeballs, stamp out circles from center of kiwi slices using a 1-inch diameter round cutter (I used a plastic juice bottle cap.)
Cut apple into 1/8-inch slices and soak in lime juice to prevent browning.
Use a slightly smaller than 1-inch diameter round cutter to stamp out holes in the center of each apple slice.
Place the kiwi round inside the apple hole.
Cut out an eye shape from the apple with the kiwi as the iris and the apple as the white of the eye.
To get a "window pane" look with kiwi-apple-eye slices, unmold pops and place in freezer to keep firm.
Re-fill each mold with 1 tablespoon of reserved mixture.
Coat kiwi slices in sugar glue (recipe below) and adhere to pops.
Submerge pops back in molds so mixture in bottom comes up around kiwi and is level with top surface; freeze completely.
Remove pops from molds and serve on ice in a large bowl.
