STEEMIT IRON CHEF 2018 Act 02 Round 10 ~ 🌞 Summer Sky Popsicles ⭐️

SummerNightSky ⭐️ & SummerDaySky 🌞

It's incredibly hot over here for weeks now. So making some cooling popsicles seemed to be the perfect idea by the creator of this amazing contest #steemit-ironchef, by our beloved Hive account@progressivechef. It would have been a perfect idea ... but not when it looked like all popsicle molds were sold out everywhere in town! 😲 I sweat a lot running from shop to shop in the glittering heat of the streets until I finally found some leftover molds. 😅 Whew!

I had the idea of making two sorts of popsicles: one representing the summer sky at daytime - bright and light and with a shining sun in it and one representing the summer sky dur the night - dark and deep and with twinkling stars in it.

Here are the ingredients I used:

• blackberries 
• blueberries
• a banana
• coconut water
• a cantaloupe melon
• lemongrass
• a lemon
• some dessert decoration in the shape of stars and butterflies 
• elderberry sirup

Preparation

I washed the blackberries and blueberries and set them in the freezer. I mashed the stem of the lemongrass a little bit and put it into the coconut water to infuse it with lemongrass aroma. I also set it in the freezer. I needed all ingredients to get as cold as possible. That's why there ar not so many photos of the making off as usual because I tried to work ver fast.

To give my popsicles their glamorous and special touch I cut out little stars off thin slices of banana and circles out of the melon. I stick them on the wall of the popsicle molds which was easy because they stuck by themselves. I also wanted the little sugar stars and butterflies sticking on the mold. I tried to glue them with little drops of water. Then I set the molds in the freezer for 20Minutes.

Inbetween I mixed the almost frozen blackberries, blueberries and two tablespoons of the sirup in my blender. I filled the molds with the stars with the frozen berry mixture, put some bamboo sticks into and set it back into the freezer.

My actual idea for the day sky was to color the liquid in a beautiful baby blue. I've seen photos of beautiful blue smoothie bowls but I don't know what turned them blue. I didn't want to use artificial foodcolors so I had the idea to experiment with the aronia juice. If you cook red cabbage it turns more purple the more acid (lemon juice) you put in it and you could change the color into a more blue purple by creating a more basic milieu. Maybe this was a solution? I put some aronia juice into some coconut water: purple! I added some baking soda - still purple. 😏😝

So this experiment failed but I needed a solution and because the air has no color I decided to leave my summer day sky uncolered. I mixed some fresh lemon juice and two tablespoons of the elderberry sirup into the lemongrass infused coconut water and filled the molds with the "suns" and the butterflies. Because the mixture was still liquid the butterflies disappeared a little bit from the surface (like in reality if you try to photograph these flattery insects - they are everywhere but on your photography 😆)

Here is the final result. I springled some tiny golden and silver sugar pearls on the dark version for more stars and some sugar butterflies on the light popsicles to replace the the disappeared.

I tried out both sorts tonight while sitting in front of a movie and with a fan in our backs ... ❄️❄️❄️ Both very very delicious and wonderfully refreshing.

Have a beautiful summer weekend everyone. Hope to see you all again soon around here! ☀️