About this Recipe

Notes

You can also pour mixture into a baking dish greased with coconut oil if you don’t have silicone molds. After the mixture is set up, cut with a knife or use cookie cutters to make any shape you like.

Optional: Any other ingredients you would like to incorporate like probiotics or elderberry syrup (to prevent or fight a cold), or cod liver oil (immune system booster). Remember you can make these gummies your natural multivitamins.

Ingredients

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Makes - approx. 40 worms

1 liquid (juice or pureed fruit)

4 tablespoons plain gelatin

2-4 tablespoons honey or maple syrup (use 4 if you like them extra sweet)

Optional (to make them into vitamins)

1 tablespoon Vitamin C powder

1 Tablespoon elderberry powder

Tools:

small saucepan

silicone mold OR 8x8 glass pan

baking sheet (if using the mold)

small measuring cup

larger measuring cup or bowl with a spout (for easy pouring)

whisk

spatula

Directions:

Combine all ingredients except gelatin in a small saucepan over medium-low heat. Stir with a whisk.

Gradually whisk gelatin into the mixture, stirring constantly. (Avoid dumping gelatin into the pan all at once, which will cause big globs of gelatin to remain in the finished product.)

Continue heating over medium-low heat until all ingredients are well combined and gelatin is completely melted. (The mixture will change from a grainy, jelly-like consistency to a more glassy, smooth consistency when gelatin is all melted.)

Place gummy bear mold on a cookie sheet (which makes it easier to move without spilling once filled). Pour mixture into silicone mold and place in freezer for about 20-30 minutes.

Pop homemade gummy bears out of mold and store in an airtight container. They will keep in the refrigerator for a few weeks.

Notes

Pour juice into a small-medium saucepan. Sprinkle the gelatin over the top and let sit for just a few minutes until it starts to “bloom” (it will get wrinkly looking on the surface and all of the white powder from the gelatin will absorb into the liquid). When all the gelatin is absorbed, mix it well.

Then place the saucepan over medium heat on the stove. Let the liquid warm, but don’t let it boil. You want all of the gelatin to dissolve and turn thin and runny (it will be grainy at the beginning but after a couple of minutes in the heat it should dissolve completely).Add the honey, vanilla extract,and any other ingredients you will be using.

Put the liquid in a little jar (I use my measuring cup) into a Loaf Pan or your fun gummy molds and refrigerate for about 2-3 hours. Some of my favorite molds are the Freshware 30-Cavity Silicone Mold, the Toy, Car, Block and Bear Chocolate, Gummy Mold and the kilofly Silicone Mold, Robot & Dinosaur

Remove from molds. They pop right out. If you used the loaf pan, cut your gelatin into small squares.

Keep your homemade healthy gummies in an airtight container in the refrigerator for about 2 weeks. If you leave them outside they will last but I recommend storing them in the refrigerator.