Recipe to make your own gummy bears - you need for the candy
- The base material for the production of rubber in 100 ml of fruit juice are bears. So you can expect a larger mass on the best high, how much juice you need.
- To make gummy bears yourself, is, of course, that you still need other ingredients. So you need gelatin. In General, twelve sheets are in a standard package. You need at least 1 to 1.5 leaf - depending on what strength you want to give the gummy bears. Find a substitute for gelatin, you can also find vegan Alternatives.
- Add ingredients that give the gummi bears to your sweet taste. But the liquid, on the Basis of the bears occur, plays a major role. Fruit juices can be very sweet. Here's your taste in the selection helps you. To Sweeten a teaspoon of sugar is suitable. A replacement is also maple syrup or Stevia as a sweetener. The latter helps with the Thickening. Whether Stevia healthy is, know you in another post.
- Two tablespoons of lemon or lime juice are other ingredients and leave you with several options in the flavoring.
- In addition to the taste they also determine the color alone. You can easily reset food color. The taste you thus do not affect only the optics.
- So your gummy bear also visually something to offer, you can have specially-made molds out of silicone to use. The appearance plays no role, there is no need to forms. The ice cubes form your refrigerator enough.
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DIY guide: how to make gummy bears yourself
You have gathered all the ingredients, you can start with your gummy-production. By the way, this also makes children a lot of fun.
- Soak the Gelatine in cold fruit juice. After about ten minutes they heat up the juice until the gelatin has dissolved completely.
- Meanwhile, heat the rest of the fruit juice in a water bath and add the other ingredients, such as Sweet, acid, and color.
- Stir finally, the gelatin is dissolved under. A permanent Stirring makes the mass nice and even and smooth.
- Everything is mixed well and you have a homogeneous mass, remove the bowl from the water bath. And so you come near the Finale of the production: make Sure that the mass is still warm and therefore liquid, if you type this directly into the previously targeted Form.
- Let the rubber time bear now to Cool down. You do this gently and not in the fridge, because it would damage your refrigerator, and energy efficiency, when something Warm heats up your fridge on the inside.
- The cooling process is over, then you put the mold in the fridge. Let the gummy bears something in the cold fridge – this is the strength.
- After half an hour you are holding your plant in your hands. The gummy bears are in ready-to-eat.
- If you bear the rubber a little longer want to keep, then it's worth it to separate the finished products. You are too close to each other, bonding them together - homemade gummy bears are not sealed, in contrast to the purchased.
Like you in the summer, a refreshing candy, we show you in our next DIY instructions on how to make ice cream without an ice cream maker.
