Then make these delicious gummy candies! I derived this from this video on YouTube here. I found trying to follow the recipe on the video was a bit tricky so I thought I would blog out a recipe.
Here are the ingredients you are going to need:
- 1/2 cup COLD water (some ice cubes could help with this)
- 1/4 cup corn syrup - preferably the clear kind as I bought the yellow stuff and it changes the colour of your candies
- 1 pack JELLO - I used raspberry
- 2 packs of unflavoured gelatin (I used Knox)
- Flavoured vitamin C tablets (optional)
Steps
Measure out half a cup of water.
Adding ice cubes will make it extra cold. This helps everything to mix well. Plus it looks really cool to put the Millenium Falcon in a measuring cup.
After the ice has melted, add 1/4 cup of corn syrup. Stir it with a fork until everything is mixed together. Pour it into a saucepan! Don't turn on the heat!
Now pour in all the gelatin - the flavoured Jello and the unflavoured gelatin.
Still don't turn on the heat! Mix the gelatin and the liquid. It will be chunky for a bit but keep mixing!
Leave it for a bit and crush up the vitamin C tablets if you are adding them. You can also add powdered citric acid. If you like it sour add 2 tsp.
You'll want to crush them into as fine a powder as you can. Just like the Rancor crushed the bones of Jabba's enemies.
Add in the crushed tablets. Stir until they are starting to dissolve. Turn the heat on! Medium low is best, you don't need a lot of heat here, and it is best not to burn it.
Keep stirring until it is nice and smooth. There were a number of steps here but this probably shouldn't take more than 10 minutes or so.
Pour the hot liquid into a cup or other heat resistant tall clear glass. This will allow the impurities to float to the top of the glass. If you did this right there won't be much! Skim it off with a spoon. I like to put it aside and eat it... very sweet. But you can just get rid of it if you want.
Pour the liquid into a condiment bottle so you can easily control the flow into the moulds.
Pour the goodness into the moulds! Make sure to fill them just a little too full. They will shrink as they cool. I found a six pack of these on Amazon.ca here.
