This entry is dedicated to all those who need cheering up, especially my friend Pag-Asa. *hugs* Do grab some ice candy from your nearest sari-sari store or prepare your own. It’s a picker upper!
Do you remember going to your neighborhood store and buying ice candy prepared this way? Ever since I saw some plastic ice candy bags at the grocery I’ve been on a freezing frenzy. So far I have turned the following into ice candy: Milk. Orange Juice. Iced Tea. Water. And… avocados! Just put in the flesh of two avocados in a blender, pour in some milk till it covers the avocados, add sugar according to what your sweet tooth whispers, and hit the puree button. Afterwards, use a funnel to pour the avocado mixture from the blender into each plastic ice candy bag. Two avocados gave me 5 ice candy bars.
I also used overripe mangoes for ice candy. They were too mushy to eat as they were, so turning them into ice candy was the best solution I could think of. Just pop in the sliced mangoes into a blender, mix in a little sugar, some milk or yogurt and you’ve got yourself mango ice candy. Just like the good ol’ days.
You can also use your ice cube tray, plastic cups and popsicle molds to prepare this frozen delight. I like using these little ice bags though. A little nibbling on the plastic, a little sipping of the chilled sweetness and I’m transported back to my childhood. I’m a ten-year-old again, standing outside our neighborhood store, feasting on ice candy under the afternoon sun.
P.S. Does anyone know how to make monggo ice candy?
Hi! I'm Toni Tiu,
and I've been blogging at
at Wifely Steps since 2003. This started as a blog to help newly weds adjust to married life. It has evolved into a home and parenting blog. I write about things close to my heart -- good eats, good reads, family, marriage, and the little things that make everyday happy.
JO
June 7, 2007 at 12:12 am (17 years ago)Summer is here and ice candies will be refreshing.
sha
June 7, 2007 at 6:11 am (17 years ago)you always bring rays of sunshine….. i love this post will do this when i get back to france
i bought my sis this plastic mould for popsicles and wooden sticks…. ah summer!!!!!!!!!
wait its cold here in london… i called france its raining i got a text from greece its flash flood oh where is summer!!!!
cookie
June 7, 2007 at 7:07 am (17 years ago)Sarap!! And avocados are almost in season na..or are they in season na? Brings back all those memories of waiting in line at the sarisari store and paying 50 centavos for ice candy. You know what, my sisters and I always went home smelling like aratilis after eating ice candy. I don’t know why but that’s what my mom always said. Eh di ba and baho nun. Yup, I admit it, medyo dugyot ako nung bata ako. Hahahaha. Thanks for the nice flashback Toni
annastasa
June 7, 2007 at 1:08 pm (17 years ago)as always, great post, toni! ever tried munggo ice candy? our neighborhood sari-sari store used to make those, and even though i hated gulay when i was a kid I sure hoarded munggo-flavored ice candy…
hazel
June 7, 2007 at 2:43 pm (17 years ago)I used to stay in Pampanga for most of the week when i wasn’t going to school yet, and the whole summer when i started school. And oh i was the neighborhood Ice Candy store! heheh i made those together with flavored gulaman (i made them in jelly-ace-like moulds). But i have to say i haven’t tried munggo flavor either.
My then single aunt used to help me make different flavors depending on what we find on my lola’s kitchen :p Milo, Orange Juice, Buko Juice, Mangoes, etc.
Now i miss Pampangga before lahar
kaoko
June 7, 2007 at 5:23 pm (17 years ago)My lola used to make red munggo ice candy with gata. She also made some with pinipig instead of munggo. I’ll ask my mom when I get home whether she still remembers how.
barbara
June 7, 2007 at 5:51 pm (17 years ago)munggo ice candy.. is that the Ice Buko thing? I remember the corner sari sari store sa Vito Cruz where we used to live and they have the nicest ice buko with mungo and buko pieces. sooooooo nice, I don’t know how to do it, but if anybody knows I’ll be truly greatful.
oh my God, So many Filipino food that I miss na.
I should visit Manila soon.
–Miss B
Jaymie
June 7, 2007 at 8:11 pm (17 years ago)I’m just in Manila and I still miss this. Thanks for the great idea. I’m no cook but I’m sure my kids’ yaya knows how to do this. Time to get me some ice candy plastic bags…
Miguel
June 8, 2007 at 12:43 am (17 years ago)Yeah ice cream is happy food when you eat it, but when the calories kick in… arghhhhh!
Now you remind me to try out the ice cream here.. but it’s always cold at night when I pass by the store.
biberli
June 8, 2007 at 4:30 am (17 years ago)ice candy.. sarap nun.. happy thoughts.
SELaplana
June 8, 2007 at 6:24 pm (17 years ago)alam kong gumawa ng icecandy ahhh…. meron pa yung sikat na icedjuice….
Lady Luxie
June 8, 2007 at 9:01 pm (17 years ago)geeez’…been ages since I had one…a decade?
rach
June 10, 2007 at 2:33 am (17 years ago)I loved ice candy when I was young. My brother and I used to buy them all the time at the store but I have never tried avocado flavor before. I like the idea considering I love avocados with some milk and sugar.
Lisa
June 10, 2007 at 11:09 pm (17 years ago)Oh my god, this brings me back to my childhood. I used to live for that stuff. Must make some soon. Thanks for this.
Chateau
June 14, 2007 at 11:02 pm (17 years ago)My lolo used to make the weirdest but yummiest ice candy (for me and all his grandkids) – kamote ice candy! He mixed together boiled and peeled kamote, a few spoons of vanilla extract, sugar and lots of Alaska evap milk… hay, namiss ko tuloy sya. He made those everytime we kids go visit him for the summer.
Lissa
June 14, 2007 at 11:49 pm (17 years ago)OMG!!!! Ice candy is one of my favorite things during summertime in the Philippines. We used to sell the buko ones. I would kill for one of those goodies right now.
Irene
June 26, 2007 at 3:48 am (17 years ago)This post brought a smile to my face…I grew up here in the states and as a child we would visit our family in the Philippines in the summer. My Mom brought back these plastic bags and made ice candy for us and I’d share them with my American friends and they looved it!
Macnerdzcare
December 10, 2007 at 12:48 pm (16 years ago)oks na oks talaga ice candy :).. i like the mango and milk flavor.