VIDEO: Make gummy bears yourself

So you can make gummy bears yourself

To make gummy bears yourself, you should first provide the ingredients and kitchen utensils required for the gummy bear recipe.
Then mix 130 grams of gelatin with 200 milliliters water in a matching bowl. Let this mixture soak for about 20 minutes.
Then melt the gelatin in a water bath. To do this, the bowl with the gelatine is placed in a saucepan filled with a little water. Heat the water. In this way, the water-gelatin mixture becomes a homogeneous mass.
Using a whisk, stir together 400 grams of sugar and 120 milliliters of water in a saucepan and bring the mixture to a boil.
Then stir 400 milliliters of fruit syrup in the desired flavor into the sugar-water mixture.

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Then four tablespoons of lemon juice and the dissolved gelatin are stirred into the sugar mixture. Also, add some food coloring, depending on the flavor of your gummy bears.
Then let the gummy bear mixture "steep" on a warm hotplate for 15 minutes.

Now you can fill them into forms. Praline molds made of silicone or empty plastic inserts from Advent calendars are suitable for this.
The gummy bears should be stored in a cool place for about twelve hours. Then they can be optimally removed from the molds.
Packed in cellophane bags, your homemade gummy bears are a nice "souvenir" and are sure to give your friends and relatives a lot of joy and taste very tasty.

Gummy bears are mainly made up of fruit juice and thickener. In European cuisine, gelatine is mostly used for thickening. But since this is made from pork skin, animal bones and skins and possibly consists of chemistry, more and more people are doing without it and instead use the vegetarian agar agar, which is made from algae and, like gelatine, is tasteless. You can get it in health food stores and health food stores, in some supermarkets, in Asian stores and in pharmacies.
If you want to make particularly tasty gummy bears yourself, use self-pressed ones juice made from fresh fruits. As a result, the bear tastes nice and intense. Mash the fruit, then pass it through a fine sieve to separate the juice from the fibers.

First you need a mold for the gummy bears. If you do some research on the internet you will find some results. However, only use plastic molds made for Food are intended.
Dust the form with starch and put it in the freezer.
Dissolve the agar-agar powder in a small saucepan with water and add sugar and salt. Stir everything well and let it rest for 5 to 10 minutes.
Then heat the mixture on the stove and cook, stirring constantly, until it thickens. Then take it off the plate.
Get the mold out of the freezer and pour the hot mixture into it.
Cover the mold with a piece of wax paper and place a plate on top. Press it down a little and remove any remnants of the mixture that may leak out.
Now the mold is placed in the freezer for half an hour and hardens there. When the time is up, remove the gummy bears from the mold.
If you like to make gummy bears yourself, you can experiment with juices and flavors, add citric acid or roll the bears in sugar.

Work well too gummy bear from jelly that taste different depending on the flavor.

First of all, the gelatin powder and jelly powder must be stirred into the water in a saucepan and soaked for 15 minutes.
Cornstarch can also be used as a mold, in which impressions are made from a gummy bear that has already been bought. To do this, put the starfish in a mold and smooth it out and skewer the gummy bear on a small stick and press into the starch.
Then mix the sugar with 2 tablespoons of water and bring to a boil. Once the gelatin and jelly powder has swelled up in the water, the mixture is warmed up. Warning: she is not allowed to cook!
Now the sugar mixture can be poured into the jelly mixture and honey to be added. Everything is mixed well together.
Finally, pour the liquid mass into the casting mold, let it cool down and carefully place it in the refrigerator.

Additional author: Katharina Schnack

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