Buying healthy food on one income can be tricky. Luckily, we’ve discovered ways to still eat healthy/natural food while being frugal with our money! The best way to do this is to make your own healthy foods, especially snacks. One of my new favorite snacks to make is homemade fruit snacks! The best part is you can adjust this recipe to fit you or your children’s taste buds. And you get to choose all the ingredients, so you can ensure your kids’ snacks are free of dyes, artificial flavors, and other weird ingredients. You could even add vitamins to these fruit snacks to made homemade gummy vitamins! These are extremely simple to make and you probably already have all the ingredients in your home already. You and your kids are sure to love these quick, healthy, and affordable Homemade Fruit Snacks!
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Having all of your ingredients set out ahead of time makes this a lot easier. The gelatin sets EXTREMELY fast so you must move quickly. As soon as you’ve mixed your ingredients together you’ll have to pour the mixture into the molds. So make sure to set everything up and read through the directions before you get started!
Homemade Fruit Snacks
Ingredients
1 cup water
8 tablespoons gelatin powder (I used grass-fed beef gelatin)
2 cups pureed fruit (Use fresh or frozen. I actually used applesauce and then steamed some apples with cinnamon since I didn’t have any other fruit on hand! It worked out great.)
1/2 cup fruit juice of your choice
2 tablespoons sugar or maple syrup, or 1/4 cup honey
Directions
1. Puree your fruit and set aside.
2. Measure out your fruit juice and set aside.
3. Boil 1/2 cup of the water. Set aside the other 1/2 cup room temperature water in the container or jar you plan on mixing everything in (I suggest something you can easily use to pour your mixture into your fruit snack molds).
4. In your 1/2 cup of room temperature water add your gelatin powder and stir.
5. Quickly add your boiling water to your gelatin mixture and rapidly stir.
6. Quickly add your sugar (or maple syrup or honey), fruit puree and juice and stir further.
7. Before the gelatin solidifies pour your mixture into your molds. If this gets a little messy don’t worry. You can even off the top of your molds with a butter knife or cake cutter.
8. After you are finished pouring your fruit mixture into the molds, place them on a cookie sheet in the refrigerator. Cool for at least 2 hours.
9. Pop the fruit snacks out of the molds and enjoy!
Store in an airtight container for up to 2 weeks.
Have you ever made homemade fruit snacks?
Homemade Fruit Snacks
- Category: Snack
Description
Skip the dyes and chemicals in commercial fruit snacks by making your own healthy homemade ones!
Ingredients
- 1 cup water
- 8 tablespoons gelatin powder (I used grass-fed beef gelatin)
- 2 cups pureed fruit (Use fresh or frozen. I actually used applesauce and then steamed some apples with cinnamon since I didn’t have any other fruit on hand! It worked out great.)
- 1/2 cup fruit juice of your choice
- 2 tablespoons sugar or maple syrup, or 1/4 cup honey
- Silicone candy/chocolate mold
Instructions
- Puree your fruit and set aside.
- Measure out your fruit juice and set aside.
- Boil 1/2 cup of the water. Set aside the other 1/2 cup room temperature water in the container or jar you plan on mixing everything in (I suggest something you can easily use to pour your mixture into your fruit snack molds).
- In your 1/2 cup of room temperature water add your gelatin powder and stir.
- Quickly add your boiling water to your gelatin mixture and rapidly stir.
- Quickly add your sugar (or maple syrup or honey), fruit puree and juice and stir further.
- Before the gelatin solidifies pour your mixture into your molds. If this gets a little messy don’t worry. You can even off the top of your molds with a butter knife or cake cutter.
- After you are finished pouring your fruit mixture into the molds, place them on a cookie sheet in the refrigerator. Cool for at least 2 hours.
- Pop the fruit snacks out of the molds and enjoy!
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These look so yummy and fun to make! Thanks for sharing your tutorial on this week’s Monday Funday Party!
These look delicious! Found you at the show and tell link party.
I’m such a kid- I LOVE fruit snacks! Pinned!
We stopped buying these along time ago, but my kids would probably love the homemade version. Thanks for sharing your recipe at Merry Monday. 🙂
Nice!! I might have to try this! It seems to much better than the store bought version! Thanks!