Ingredients
- 50g black sesame seeds
- 100g beluga lentils
- 200g banana
- 300ml coconut milk
- 120g dates (Medjool dates, 5 pieces)
- 30g cocoa powder (for baking)
- 3ml sesame oil (2 tsp)
- 30ml lemon juice
- 2 tsp Ceylon cinnamon powder
Ingredients for Decoration:
- 40g dark chocolate sprinkles
- 100g dark chocolate 78%
- 20 blanched almonds
Instructions
Pit and roughly chop the dates. Put them in a pot, together with the black beluga lentils, then pour in water. Cook them together until the lentils are tender.
Take a pan and lightly toast the black sesame. Next, we take a mortar and pestle and break up the small grains to turn them into a paste. Start in small portions and gradually add more. Grind them until having a coarse sesame paste.
Now squeeze the juice from one lemon and roughly chop the banana.
Finally, put all the prepared ingredients in the blender. The lemon juice, coconut milk, cooked lentils with dates, black sesame paste, banana, cocoa powder, cinnamon, and sesame oil all go in! Start mixing until we have a creamy consistency.
Pour the mixture into the popsicle mold, add popsicle sticks, and freeze overnight.
Decoration:
Cut the almonds in half with a knife. We will need 24 halved almonds for the eyes. Then, cut more halved almonds to the size of teeth for the scary mouth.
Break the chocolate into pieces and put them in a bowl. Place the bowl in a larger saucepan, add hot water, and let it melt while stirring.
Remove one frozen popsicle from the mold and quickly dip the top into the chocolate bath. Immediately roll the popsicles in the sprinkles as the chocolate hardens super fast.
Add a blob of melted chocolate to the eye area and immediately press an almond into it. Repeat this for the other eye.
Add two blobs for the teeth and press the shaped teeth made of almonds in. Afterward, we form a chocolate line as a mouth on our popsicle.
Add pupils to the eyes, and you are done!
Notes
If you want to store your frozen popsicles for another day, just put them in a zipper bag and pop them in the freezer! You can also buy small cellophane bags (plastic-free, food-safe and biodegradable) so you can wrap each popsicle individually before putting them all in a zipper bag.
- Prep Time: 90 Minutes
- Freeze Time: 24 Hours
- Category: Popsicle
- Method: Freezing
- Cuisine: International
- Diet: Vegan