WebFill a saucepan almost halfway with water; bring to a boil. Measure 1/3 cup cold water in a glass measuring cup. Dissolve gelatin in the cold water, stirring constantly …
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In fact, you only need three basic ingredients to make strawberry sugar-free gummy bears – strawberries, powdered sweetener, and grass-fed gelatin powder. Oh, and water, if you want to count that as an ingredient. I like to include strawberry extract as well, which is optional.
Pour one cup of tea into a small sauce pan on the stove. Next, add the gelatin and pour the gummies. Whisk the gelatin and sweetener into the sauce pan. Heat and stir the gelatin mixture over medium heat until the liquid is thin and there are no gelatin clumps. Remove the sauce pan from heat and stir in the fruit extract.
Pectin needs to be below 3.5ph to set into a gel. Even at high concentrations of pectin it will never be chewy, pectin is a soft and brittle gel, this is why it makes spreadable jams and jellies so well. When making a chewy pectin candy it requires a little more finesse than a gelatin gummy.