Berry Wine Popsicles

Krause Berry Farms & Estate Winery in BC’s Fraser Valley is celebrating the 50th anniversary of their opening with the release of a cookbook, The Krause Berry Farms Cookbook: Sweet and Savoury Recipes from the Fraser Valley’s Famous Farm and Bakery. Inside you’ll find cherished recipes like this one for frozen popsicles, initially created by a family friend. Owner and author Sandee Krause writes: “Thanks to Heather (also our incredible photographer of this very cookbook!) for teaching me this fun and very easy way to make wine popsicles for adults in the summer. Our fruit wines make excellent wine popsicles and can be mixed or used individually. You can use any combination of berry wines, syrups and berries!”

What are berry wines?

Berry wine, and other fruit wines, are made in a similar style to grape-based wines – the fruit is juiced and fermented, sometimes with the addition of sweeteners. At Krause Berry Farms, wine is made from blackberries, blueberries, blackcurrants and more. “Have fun with mixing and matching,” writes Krause. (You can also look for fruit winemakers in your own province, such as Field Stone Fruit Wines in Alberta or Muskoka Lakes Farm & Winery in Ontario.)

Berry Wine Popsicles

An easy recipe for Berry Wine Popsicles from Krause Berry Farms in Fraser Valley, B.C.

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Course Dessert, Snack

Servings 16

Ingredients

  

• 2 cups berry wine like Krause Berry Farms and Estate Winery berry wine (flavour of your choice)
• ⅓-½ cup berry syrup like Krause Berry Farms and Estate Winery berry syrup (flavour of your choice)
• fresh or frozen berries if using strawberries, slice them

Instructions

 

• Pour the wine into a medium bowl and then add the berry syrup to sweeten to your liking. Start with 1⁄3 cup and taste. If you wish, add more berry syrup, 1 tbsp at a time, until it tastes just how you like it. Stir well.
• Fill your popsicle moulds about halfway with this wine mixture.
• Drop in some berries, pour in more wine mixture, then add more berries to top it off. Freeze according to the popsicle mould instructions. Once the popsicles are frozen, I suggest wrapping each popsicle in foil and transferring them to a labelled freezer bag.

Notes

Be careful. The littles will want these too! Substitute juice for them and use a different mould. Make sure to label them so as not to confuse the two, especially if you store them side by side!

Excerpted from The Krause Berry Farms Cookbook by Sandee Krause. Copyright © 2024 Sandee Krause. Photographs by Heather Cameron. Published by Appetite by Random House, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited. Reproduced by arrangement with the Publisher. All rights reserved.