Homemade Halloween Themed Gummy Candy

Don’t fret, my one-Halloween-post-a-year is here! One of our local supermarkets had some super cute Halloween themed silicon moulds that I bought instantly even though I had zero intention to actually use.

However, I eventually fell in love with everyone else’s love of Halloween – even amongst all the darkness that 2020 brought along with it – that I decided to actually use them for something, so here we are!

This recipe was actually a huuuuuge pain 🙄 You’d think by now I’d be an expert at all things gummy AND jello, but nope, these guys took quite a few tries and I almost threw in the towel because over here in Australia we really just don’t care about Halloween 😅

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But a good 90% (or more!) of my readers and followers are from America, so this is for you guys! I swear one day I will put a lot more effort into planning better Halloween content in advance. I want to actually paint and carve pumpkins one year – AND make costumes too! I mean, you all must love this holiday for a reason, right?! Anyway, let’s get onto the recipe 👇

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YOU WILL NEED:

♡ 3 tablespoons gelatine power
♡ 250ml boiling water
♡ 1-3 flavour extracts of your choice
♡ 4 tbsp sugar
♡ Three pipettes
♡ Pumpkin, witch hat, and bat shaped silicon moulds (mine are from Coles)
♡ AmeriColor AmeriMist food colour in Electric Purple, Electric Orange, and Super Black.

DIRECTIONS:

1. Put your silicon moulds onto trays and make sure there’s room for them in your fridge. Lightly coat them with spray oil. Place your gelatine powder and sugar into a metal bowl. Boil 250ml of water and pour it into the bowl, and mix until everything is dissolved.

2. Pour out 80ml of the mixture into a ramekin. Add 1-2 drops of Electric Orange colour and the recommended amount of flavour extract of your choice (you may want to add more flavour though, since we are using a LOT of gelatine powder), then mix in well. Use a pipette to pipe into your pumpkin silicon moulds, but only fill the moulds about 80-90% of the way.

3. Pour out another 80ml of mixture into a separate, clean ramekin. If it has cooled down, boil a tablespoon or two of water and stir it through the mixture. Add a few drops of Electric Purple food colour, depending on how dark you want you want your witches hats, then add your chosen flavour extract. Use a pipette to pipe into your witch hats silicon moulds, only filling them about 80-90% of the way again.

4. If the remaining mixture is cool, boil another tablespoon or two of water and stir it in. Add 2-3 drops of Super Black food colour, then your chosen flavour extract, and stir. Use another pipette to pipe the mixture into your bat moulds until they are 80-90% filled.

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5. Place the tray/s with your silicons moulds in the fridge until they are set. Since they are so small, it shouldn’t take more than 30-60 minutes, but you can keep them in longer to be sure. After that, you are finished! You now have some super cute n’ firm fit-for-Halloween gummy candies 😋 🦇

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Okay guys, that’s it: Halloween is now over in my eyes which means one thing… Christmas is here! Considering how much Christmas means to me, I am really lacking on Christmas content here on the blog, but I really hope to change that this year.

I have a lot of fun DIY projects planned for this year – some that I’ve already started – and if there’s any gift guides or any other kind of posts that you’d like to see, then feel free to let me know in the comments below! 👇 I don’t want to disappoint anyone during this magical time of year ☺️

Until next time,
Indya xx

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