Description
With fresh peaches and just 4 other ingredients, you can make homemade gummy peach rings that are chewy, delicious, and packed with real peach flavor.
Gummy peach rings are one of our favorite snacks. They look and taste amazing, but are usually made with artificial flavors, colorings, and corn syrup. So why not make them at home? It's way easier than you think!
Ingredients
- 180g fresh or frozen yellow peaches (about 2/3 cup blended)
- 2 envelopes (~7g each, ~14g total) unflavored powdered gelatin
- 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons honey or agave
- Optional: 1 1/2 teaspoons tart cherry concentrate (or natural red food coloring)
- Optional: 1/4 cup sugar + 1 tbsp (or less) citric acid for coating
Instructions
- Blend the fruit. Add fruit to blender and blend until completely smooth. We also passed the fruit through a fine mesh strainer to remove some of the skin, but this is totally optional.
- Bloom the gelatin. In a small container, sprinkle gelatin evenly over lemon juice, then stir thoroughly until there are no dry grains visible. Let sit for 5 minutes.
- Heat up the fruit purée. While the gelatin blooms, combine fruit purée with honey or agave in a small saucepan over low heat, and stir until combined. You want to heat the purée enough to melt the gelatin (>~120˚F), but you don't want to bring it to a boil, which will denature the gelatin.
- Combine fruit purée with gelatin. Add gelatin and lemon juice mixture to the fruit puree, and stir until it's completely dissolved. Remove pan from heat and let cool for about 5 minutes.
- Fill up your molds. Pour half of the mixture into one small mixing bowl, and half into another. Add tart cherry concentrate to one of the bowls and mix to create your two different colors. Give your silicone molds a light spray with avocado oil or cooking spray. Use two spoons or droppers simultaneously to fill up each ring, then move to your refrigerator. Refrigerate for an hour and a half to let them set up.
- Air dry your gummies. Remove from the molds and place on a wire rack, and let sit for 8 hours or overnight. The gummies will shrink significantly and achieve a more intense flavor and a chewy, gummy texture.
- Optional: Coat them in the sugar/citric acid mixture just before eating. NOTE: The citric acid/sugar mixture will eventually draw out moisture from the gummies, so they will start to melt/disintegrate. We suggest waiting to coat them until just before eating. You can keep the sugar/citric acid mixture in a little container and just coat a few when you want to eat them, versus coating them all at once and then storing (this will not work).
Notes
EQUIPMENT LINKS: These are the molds we used and these are the droppers. If you want to use food coloring instead of tart cherry concentrate, this is the brand we recommend (no artificial dyes).
Lightly spray your molds with cooking spray to ensure the gummies pop out easily.
Sprinkle the gelatin over the top of the lemon juice evenly. This will help to prevent clumping by ensuring that each grain of gelatin is saturated with water. Let the gelatin "bloom" for a few minutes before adding it to the fruit purée. It will come out of your container in one solid hockey-puck like piece.
It may be difficult to blend your fruit in a large blender. If this is the case, you can up the quantity of the recipe, or add a tablespoon or so of water to the blender to get things going.
Straining your fruit puree is totally optional, but we wanted a clear gummy with a consistent color, so we removed the skins.
Let the fruit purée cool a bit before adding to the molds. This will make the mixture easier to pipe.
To transfer the mixture into the molds, we used a dropper, but a food grade syringe, a small measuring cup with a pour spout, or even a small spoon would all work. You will need to pour simultaneously to achieve the two-colored ring look.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Rest Time: 9 hours 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Category: Snacks
- Method: Stovetop
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 10 peach rings
- Calories: 126
- Sugar: 25.3 g
- Sodium: 14.7 mg
- Fat: 0.3 g
- Carbohydrates: 27.1 g
- Fiber: 1.4 g
- Protein: 6.9 g