National Cherry Popsicle Day
Cool down with a sweet, tart, cold cherry popsicle. Buy some at the store, or make your own with a popsicle mold and just a few simple ingredients.
Drive summer popsicle sales and DIY frozen treat kits by celebrating National Cherry Popsicle Day with recipe content, in-store promotions, and user-generated social media campaigns.
- Share homemade cherry popsicle recipes and encourage customers to post their creations on social media
- Promote pre-made cherry popsicles and popsicle mold kits with limited-time August discounts
- Partner with influencers to showcase cherry popsicle flavor innovations and summer entertaining ideas
- Create email campaigns targeting parents with easy DIY popsicle recipes for kids' summer activities
Unlike many culinary treats, the origin of the popsicle is definitively known, and an 11-year-old boy was responsible. He was preparing a soda pop out on his porch by mixing together the white powder with the water. In the absent-minded way of 11-year-olds, he left it on the porch and went inside, forgetting it was there until the next day. He found it frozen the next day with the stirring stick in it, and the popsicle was born!
But it wasn’t until 18 years later that the rest of the world would be introduced to this innovation. He decided to introduce the frozen pop on a stick at an amusement park in Belmar, NJ, called Neptune Beach. It was so successful that he immediately applied for a patent, and at the urging of his children named it the “popsicle”. Apparently, he would rather have called it a “frozen confectionery” or the more ostentatious “Epsicle Ice Pop”. Either way, Cherry Popsicle day exists to celebrate the amazing flavor of the bright red cherry popsicle.
Cherry Coconut Popsicle
CHERRY LAYERS1 pound of pitted cherries1 ½c water½c granulated sugar2t Lime Juice COCONUT LAYERS¾c Coconut Milk¾c Yogurt1/3c granulated sugar Start with the cherry layer, and place all the ingredients in a saucepan and cook until the cherries have a soft texture before placing in a blender. You can remove the cherry pulp with a strainer, or give your pops a pulpier feel by leaving them in. Then blend the coconut filling ingredients together until they’re smooth, and pour alternating layers in the popsicle mold, freezing between each layer. Voila! Some of the most delicious popsicles you’ll ever taste! Don’t forget the stick. Of course, you can have fun experimenting with different recipes and flavors. Cherry is a flavor that can easily be combined with other fruits and ingredients, so you may want to go for a bit of different take on the classic cherry popsicle when creating a delicious frozen treat for National Cherry Popsicle Day. Make sure you post your creations on social media and let us know about any new, exciting popsicle recipe that you have found on National Cherry Popsicle Day. Another fun way to celebrate National Cherry Popsicle Day is by downloading the game Hay Day. This is the most popular farming game for tablets and mobiles, and it is available in 122 countries, so you should have no trouble playing this game on your phone. Hay Day enables you to trade goods with your friends and neighbors, as well as tend to your crops, and learn the lay of the land. You are probably wondering what this has to do with National Cherry Popsicle Day. Well, in order to unlock cherry popsicles in the game, you need to reach experience level 33. So, why not see if you can reach that level and unlock the cherry popsicle? If you manage it, you can reward yourself with a real Cherry Popsicle afterward! So there you have it: an insight into National Cherry Popsicle Day. No matter whether you decide to make your own Cherry Popsicle or you simply buy one from your local store, there is no denying that this is definitely a day to celebrate! After all, who doesn’t love an ice-cold cherry popsicle?