Name: Peach Melba pops
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 12
Ingredients: 200 gm caster sugar; 4 ripe peaches, halved; Juice of 1 orange; 1 kg Greek-style yoghurt; Scraped seeds of 1 vanilla bean; Raspberry fizz; 60 gm pure icing sugar, sifted; 2 tbsp crushed freeze-dried raspberries (see note); 1 tsp citric acid; 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda

Peach Melba pops

Peaches and raspberries are the backbone of a Peach Melba. Here we've reimagined this classic Australian dessert in icy-pole form, with a few tweaks along the way (such as roasting the peaches) for an even more memorable finish to a meal.

Serves 12

Prep

15M

Cook

25M

Total

40M

Here peaches are roasted to deepen their flavour, then puréed and mixed with a yoghurt base. A raspberry sherbet adds an intense fruity burst; if you can’t get freeze-dried raspberries, leave them out of the sherbert and freeze fresh berries instead to crumble on top. Begin this recipe a day ahead to freeze the pops.

Ingredients

200 gm caster sugar

4 ripe peaches, halved

Juice of 1 orange

1 kg Greek-style yoghurt

Scraped seeds of 1 vanilla bean

Raspberry fizz

60 gm pure icing sugar, sifted

2 tbsp crushed freeze-dried raspberries (see note)

1 tsp citric acid

1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda

Method

1.Preheat oven to 200°C. Scatter sugar in a roasting pan just large enough to fit peaches snugly in a single layer. Place peaches cut-side down in sugar, stand for 5 minutes, then turn cut-side up. Drizzle orange juice and 60ml water around peaches and roast, basting occasionally, until caramelised (20-25 minutes). Purée peaches and any pan juices in a blender until smooth.

2.Whisk yoghurt, vanilla seeds and 250ml peach purée in a bowl to combine and pour into 100ml popsicle moulds, filling to 1cm below rims. Top up each mould with remaining peach purée, insert a wooden popsicle stick in each and freeze overnight. Dip moulds in hot water to unmould popsicles.

3.For raspberry fizz, combine ingredients in a dry airtight container, seal and set aside until required. Scatter the fizz over popsicles to serve.