When my daughter was about 3, she started asking for ice pops at every meal. I’m not sure how I did it, but I’d created a pop-ster. And though it’s probably not a good parenting practice to simply hand your kid what they’re asking for all the time, it was easy enough to do.I started with one of Wirecutter’s pop-mold picks, the Zoku Fish Pop Molds, in 2022. (She was in a sea-creature phase, and these molds give you six different oceanic shapes to choose from.) I filled the molds with cranberry-apple juice, and she was thrilled.But I wanted to be able to bring pops on the go, and the fish pops couldn’t really leave our home without melting everywhere. After quickly burning through several big boxes of the “healthy” version of my childhood favorite, Otter Pops, which are more self-contained than the pop molds I’d been using, I realized that all I needed was a portable mold to replace that little plastic bag. And though I don’t remember exactly how I stumbled upon them, I’ve turned into a mom hero thanks to the Chef’n Sweet Spot Ice Pops.