A handful of ingredients is all you need to whip up a fun sweet treat that's equal parts tasty and nutritious.
Prep: 15 minutesmins
Cook: 5 minutesmins
Chill: 2 hourshrs
Total: 2 hourshrs20 minutesmins
Recipe makes approximately 10servings
Equipment Needed
Small saucepan
whisk
gummy mold(s) (see Notes)
dropper
airtight container or sealable food-safe bag (to store gummies)
Ingredients Needed
1 ½cupstart cherry juice(organic or unsweetened)
2tablespoonsfresh lemon juice(strained)
2tablespoonsfresh lime juice(strained)
3tablespoonshoney(see Notes)
¼cupgelatin powder(unflavored)
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Instructions
Add tart cherry juice, strained lemon juice, strained lime juice, and honey to small saucepan. Heat saucepan over medium-low heat. Whisk mixture constantly until juices are hot and honey is fully dissolved and incorporated, approximately 1 to 2 minutes.
Remove saucepan from heat. Add gelatin powder in 1-tablespoon increments, whisking after each addition until gelatin is fully dissolved and incorporated. Repeat until all gelatin has been added and incorporated. Note: if gelatin clumps when added to hot liquid, use back of spoon to break up clumps, then whisk to incorporate.
Once gelatin is fully incorporated, quickly and carefully use dropper to portion gummy mixture into molds.
Carefully place filled molds in refrigerator, making sure molds sit level and flat. Chill molds 2 to 3 hours or until gummies have set up completely.
Transfer solidified gummies to airtight container or sealable food-safe bag. Keep gummies in refrigerator and consume within 10 days.
Recipe Notes
If you don't have gummy molds, you can pour the gummy mixture into an 11x14 glass baking dish. Let the gummy mixture set up completely, then slice the mixture into desired servings.
The number of gummies you get out of this recipe depends entirely on the size of the gummy molds you use. I used really small molds, which gave me around 215 mini gummies. Based on my results, I divided this recipe into 10 servings of 21 gummies and used that to calculate the nutritional information shown.
Sweeteners: If you don't want to use honey, you can substitute it with agave nectar, date syrup, maple syrup, or a keto-friendly honey- or maple-flavored sweetener. You can also use a powdered sweetener of choice; just make sure to dissolve it completely in the hot fruit juice.