F is for Frozen inspired ice blocks

As one newspaper columnist put it last weekend, we are in the midst of a great Frozen drought here in Australia.  Not the weather related kind but the movie version.  There is no merchandise for the Frozen movie to be had in stores.  Sure you can get the cheap knock offs on auction websites or a few overpriced items of official merchandise on other sites but apart from that it's certainly a wasteland.

Which makes celebrating, reenacting (in Bear's case) or retelling (in Bee's case) the story of Anna and Elsa that much harder. 

Christie from Childhood 101 has this great Disney Frozen DIY Ice Castle project that looks fantastic.  As soon as I can get my hands on some figurines I will be making one of these for Bear and Bee.

In the meantime, we came up with some Anna and Elsa homemade ice blocks to enjoy.  Chocolate for Anna and Vanilla Yoghurt for Elsa. We had fun using different shaped moulds for the ice blocks too.  Apart from regular popsicle shaped moulds, we used a heart shaped ice cube tray and a mini muffin tray.

They were so simple to make and the best part is that they are a reasonably healthy treat that both girls (and their mum and dad) enjoy eating.

Anna (Chocolate) Ice blocks
We used this recipe for Homemade Chocolate Popsicles for the Anna inspired ice blocks. 

Mix together the sugar, cornflour and cocoa powder.

Whisk the cocoa mix into the near boiling milk.

Once the custard has thickened, transfer it to a jug.

Fill the moulds with the chocolate custard.

Elsa (Vanilla Yoghurt) Ice blocks
These ice blocks are so simple I can't really call it a recipe.  All we did was freeze low fat vanilla yoghurt.

Spoon the yoghurt into the moulds.

We added small popsicle sticks to the ice blocks once they had been in the freezer for about 30 minutes. And then we allowed them to freeze overnight.

White and chocolate sprinkles, gold and blue coloured sugar to decorate the ice blocks.

Bear decorating her Elsa ice blocks.

Bee enjoying her Anna ice block.