These homemade vegan fudgesicles are so easy to make, and fun to eat! Dairy and gluten-free, these healthy fudgesicles taste better than storebought vegan novelties – and are more affordable.
Were fudgesicles part of your childhood?
They were definitely part of mine.
I loved fudgesicles, along with all the other ice cream novelties of the day.
Such as “big foot” ice creams! Anyone else remember those?? And of course, creamsicles, and pudding pops (I remember how hard it was to choose between vanilla – butterscotch – chocolate… most often I chose at least two. Yes.)
In fact, I’m pretty sure these novelties – along with custard cones – sparked my love for ice cream.
When I first became vegan over 20 years ago, there were no vegan ice cream novelties. No vegan ice cream. Certainly no vegan fudgesicles. None.
It was a dark, dark time in my life. 😂
I joke. However ice cream is not a joke in my house. You would know that if you got a peek inside my freezer. I keep a variety of my favorites!
In the past few years vegan food has exploded. As a result, we have just about every dairy-free ice cream treat we might desire… including vegan fudgesicles.
However, I haven’t found vegan fudgesicles that I really love.
Just like how I don’t love all vegan ice creams – and I have tried most!
So, this vegan ice cream fanatic created homemade fudgesicles.
Vegan fudgesicles, that is!
In addition, these are a cinch to make.
No ice cream maker is needed, just a blender or food processor. Whiz up the ingredients, and let the freezer do the rest of the work.
This recipe is from Plant-Powered Families. Since we are nearing summer, I’m sharing this recipe along with a video.
As you can see, these vegan fudgesicles are EASY.
By the way, for those of you wondering about popsicles molds, I use this Tovolo brand, and here are some other BPA-free brands.
In PPF there are tips on making popsicles, page 202. If you have a recommendation for popsicle molds, please leave a comment.
So, have you made these treats from PPF yet? Or, will you?!
Enjoy, kids! x Dreena
Vegan Fudgesicles
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup macadamia nut butter or raw cashew butter
- 1/4 cup coconut sugar
- 3 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 1/8 teaspoon sea salt
- 1/2 cup nondairy milk
- 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups frozen banana slices
Instructions
- In a blender, puree the macadamia nut butter, coconut sugar, cocoa powder, sea salt, milk, and vanilla extract until smooth.
- Add the bananas and puree again.
- You will need to scrape down the blender a few times while pureeing.
- Once the mixture is smooth and liquid, pour into ice pop molds and freeze until set.
photo credit to: Nicole Axworthy
video thanks to: Mihaela Beloreshka
This post was originally published May 2019 and updated for May 2023.
Maggie says
Has anybody tried just putting this in a bowl, freezing it, and eating it as ice cream? I’m really tempted to do it. LOL
Carla says
These are amazing! My first attempt I couldn’t get them out of the molds so I switched to silicone and done! These will become a summer staple – so rich and decadent tasting!
Dreena Burton says
Yay, wonderful! Delighted you are enjoying them, thanks for the lovely review, Carla.
Paula Lee says
Has anyone made these with almond or peanut butter instead?
Dreena Burton says
Hi Paula, if using peanut butter the flavor will come through. They won’t taste as much like fudgesicles, but if you want that for sure try it. Same with almond butter as most are roasted, but if you use raw almond butter that would work well.
Paula says
Thank you for the info. I actually like chocolate and peanut butter so I will give it a try.
Dreena Burton says
wonderful, hope you love them!
Paula says
I did try them and the peanut butter did over power the chocolate. But still good. The next time I will try them with the Mac nuts or cashews. Thank you.
BJ Swingle says
Just made these! I used silicone cupcake molds. So yummy
Dreena says
Thanks for the 5-star review, BJ 🙂