I’ve been wanting to make fruit snacks for my 2 year old for a while now. She loves them and the store bought ones are full of sugar and food dyes, so today I made 2 different recipes and one of them was pretty good! I had seen a couple different recipes going around Pinterest for a while and they looked super cute, but do they taste good? I needed to find out! To my surprise, the most popular pinned recipe was not very good, in my opinion. However, my daughter loved both of them! I found an unflavored grass-fed gelatin on Amazon and used that for both recipes. Honestly, I think the reason I didn’t like this recipe is because of the large amount of gelatin used. Even though it’s unflavored, it still had a weird odor when it was hot and it definitely took away from the flavor of the fruit. Plus, the fruit snacks that I liked that most were the easiest…bonus! I found a super cute heart-shaped silicone mold from Amazon that I used.
Homemade Fruit Snacks
Ingredients
2 Tbsp grassfed gelatin
1/2 cup orange (preferable freshly squeezed and strained) juice – I used an organic, unsweetened mango nectar.
3 Tbsp raw honey
Directions
Combine juice and honey in saucepan on low heat. When mixture is warm, add the gelatin and whisk until dissolved.
Pour into molds or a parchment lined 8×8 pan and then place in refrigerator for about 20 minutes or until set.
If using an 8×8 pan, cut them into small pieces using a pizza wheel. Enjoy!
Recipe adapted from This Whole Family