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Well the boys are back to school and Bella and I are finding plenty to do! Yesterday — homemade gummy bears! We decided that learning how to make gummy bears, would be a project.
All we needed was 1 -3 oz box of flavored gelatin and 2 – 1/4 oz packages of unflavored gelatin, water and candy molds. (we used two candy molds)
Gummy Candy Recipe
Place 1/3 cup water in a small sauce pan. Sprinkle the Jello and unflavored gelatin over the water. Let sit 5 – 10 minutes. (If you like chewier gummi candy add in another packet of unflavored gelatin.)
Place sauce pan over medium heat and stir until gelatin is dissolved, about 2-5 minutes. When mixture is liquid and all gelatin has dissolved, remove from heat. Let cool a minute and then pour into a container that is easy to pour from. I use a small ceramic creamer pitcher.
Fill molds. If you save the inside of the advent calendar for projects like do, it works perfect! The sheet of star molds worked a bit better than the bears because they are a bit deeper. However, I must say we were just needing an activity so our standards were pretty low— we thought they all turned out great!
Allow to cool completely, about 20 minutes. They may be placed in a refrigerator for about 10 minutes if the kids are eager. Once cool, the backs can be lightly dusted with corn starch, if desired.
Peel the gummi candy out of the molds. Don’t be shy, you won’t hurt them when peeling them from the molds. No need to oil the molds!
Enjoy!
Make homemade stickers with the unused unflavored gelatin packets.
Notes: My son felt the blue ones weren’t flavorful enough. Next time we will try 2 boxes Jello, 3 packages of unflavored gelatin and 1/2 cup water.
Devinne says
Hi I bought a bunch of flavored jello but not unflavored gelatin is there anything you think could work without using that? Perhaps less water and/or honey or corn syrup in its place?
Kendra says
Yum! These look amazing! I can’t wait to try them!
Eme F says
Hey, is it possible that you try to make a recipe for giant gummy bears?? I’ve tried making them before, but everything just fell apart. And by the way I love the recipe you shared, it was great!
friday patrick says
great, i want to learn more.
Isabelle B says
Is it possible to make with homemade simple syrup with added flavors instead of jello powder ?
Cindy says
Isabella, I haven’t tried that! If you do give it a go please let us know if it works
Tami Williams says
I made them with lemon and lime juice as the liquid and a few packets of the Knox gelatin and added minced ginger. They were crazy yummy! I’m going to try passion fruit juice next, with and without the ginger too!
Marcy says
Thanks for sharing!! I can’t wait to try this
Lilla mys bakning says
Hi.
Found your blog looking for a soft candy recipe. I’ve tried them out and it was a big hit not just for my boys but all the kids that lives close to us and the parents was happy to eat them as well.
Thank you for a good recepie
Shawn says
Darn it I thought all I would need was 1 box of jello, I got the black cherry kind along with some citric acid and malic acid to make sour gummies – I even got a Wonder Woman mold for all my geek friends – I guess I have to get more jello now haha!
Melly says
We are making these right now!!! So excited!!!! 😀
beth says
Do these need to be refrigerated and what kind of shelf life do they have? I’m assuming not much more than 2 weeks I want to make some for party favors & id like to put instructions on them if they require anything special.
Tabitha says
I tried these with my family today. They are really good the only problem I had was that there was a lot of foam? Anyone else have this problem. How do I get it from foaming on too of the gelatin?
Cindy says
Tabitha, I haven’t had that problem. Be sure to mix the ingredients slowly trying not to create too much foam. Hope that helps!
Jeffery Legere says
rapid cooling causes that. let it cool on the counter instead.
Natala Assa says
I also had that problem. I was using s different recipe and they used a dropper instead of pouring the mixture into the molds. They also had us refrigerating for 10 minutes, then freezing for 10 minutes.
Devinne says
I saw on another tutorial when you remove from stove and pour in container that you can pour from or use the eyedropper thing with, if you let that sit a couple min it should foam at the top and if you remove the foam you shouldnt get bubble bears. Hope that helps
hope B crowder says
Our daughter is getting married soon and she wants me to make and decorate her cake… I can make roses out of jelly candy and I’m going to use this recipe to make the roses for her cake with a twist I’m adding citric acid to the sugar coating on the outside BC she loves sour candy thanks again for sharing ❤
Cindy says
Thanks! Send me a pic!
rob says
Thank you! I am Diabetic and there is not much for us so, I tried and love these. I changed to sugar free jello. Wondeeeerful!
Neceros says
Can I make this with my own flavors? I have oil-based strong flavors.
Michael Brown says
Do I have to use unflavoured gelatine?