Mango Ice Candy

Mango Ice Candy is a mango flavoured summer cooler for kids and made with mangoes, condensed milk, evaporated milk, sugar, cassava flour and food colour. it is one of the best selling ice candy during summer. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make ice candy mango flavor, so that you can cook this ice candy in your home for your kids

What is Mango Ice Candy?

In summertime, people are always in the look for different wants to quench their thirst and cravings for something cold like ice cream. In Philippines, one treat has emerged and stand out – the ice candy! Ice candies are cold, sweet treat the come in different flavors – mango is one of them!

Since mangoes becomes cheaper during its season, people would come up with recipes that can be cooked with mangoes. I love mangoes especially the “kinalabaw” variant. These are the type of mangoes that are used for making sweets like mango float, ice cream and ice candy.

How to Make Mango Ice Candy

Making ice candy is pretty easy, it’s the packaging that takes time. Ice candies come in plastic tubes or packaging. You will need to put the candy mixture in every plastic tube using a funnel, then tie it.

Mango Ice Candy Recipe

INGREDIENTS

1kg ripe mangoes
2 liters water
1 condensed milk 390g
1 evaporated milk 370ml
1 1/2 cup sugar (adjust as needed)
1 cup cassava flour (or cornstarch)
Food color egg yellow (optional)

PROCEDURE

1. Boil 2 liters water.

2. Chop the mangoes. Put in a blender. Add 1/2 can of the evaporated milk. Blend until smooth. Set aside.

3. In boiling water, add condensed milk, half can of the evaporated milk and sugar. Mix well. Add the blended mangoes and food color. Let it simmer in low heat.

4. Dissolve cassava flour in 1 cup of water. Make sure there’s no lumps. Add to the boiling mixture. Mix well. Let it simmer for 5 minutes.

5. Turn off heat and let it cool cool completely.

6. Once cooled down, put in ice candy plastic bags. Use funnel to put the mixture inside the bags. Tie and secure the ending tightly. Freeze overnight.

RECIPE NOTES

• The purpose of cassava flour is to make the texture smooth and creamy (not icy) when you freeze the ice candy. This will give the texture similar to ice cream.

• If you don’t have cassava flour, you can use cornstarch as alternative.

• Make sure to cool the mixture completely before putting in the plastic bags to prevent early spoilage or bursting the plastic.

• Keep it frozen. It can last up to 2 weeks to 1 month depending on the preparation and storage.

• If you don’t have ice candy plastic bags, you can put these in ice cream molders or plastic cups to be frozen.

Remarks

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