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Your friends and family will remember these chewy, fruity candies long after they've licked the last bit of sugar off their fingers! They're a great gift any time of year. —Christin Holt, Kingsburg, California
Nutritional Facts 1 serving (1 each) equals 35 calories, trace fat (0 saturated fat), 0 cholesterol, 3 mg sodium, 9 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, trace protein.
Originally published as Homemade Gumdrops in Country Woman Christmas Annual 2004, p27
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Reviewed on Dec. 19, 2012 by jws353
Love these..I made them and took them to work..many great comments. Someone asked whether they could be made sugar free. Has anyone tried with Splenda? I also wonder what to roll them in. I did not have the correct sized pan so I used two bread pans and they worked well but, as someone already mentioned, the first batch was hard to get off of the waxed paper. I just sprinkled the paper with sugar for the second batch. Going to do it again for Valentine's Day.
Reviewed on Dec. 17, 2012 by kegeorge
My family loved these!!! I did spray the wax paper with oil and that worked great but cut them with a pizza cutter and it was so easy! Will def add this recipe to my favorites!!!
Reviewed on Dec. 17, 2012 by debs951
Yummy! I used other flavors of gelatin, too, with very good results! Diamond walnut had a cookbook years ago that had a similar recipe that included 2 T. of red hot cinnamon candies AND I think about 1/2 cup of ground walnuts - also very good!
Reviewed on Dec. 16, 2012 by speek
Love this creative recipe. I made it easy on myself and used saran type wrap sprayed with cooking spray.Did a little research and found 1 packet of knox gelatin is the amount that is in each 4 serving packet of jello. The rest is sugar and flavoring. So, if someone wanted to make cinnamon, they could use cinnamon oil, cinnamon applesauce and enough sugar to equal the amount found in jello by package weight. The lady with the red hots in the applesauce was spot on for the cinnamon taste.
Love this creative recipe. I made it easy on myself and used saran type wrap sprayed with cooking spray.
Did a little research and found 1 packet of knox gelatin is the amount that is in each 4 serving packet of jello. The rest is sugar and flavoring. So, if someone wanted to make cinnamon, they could use cinnamon oil, cinnamon applesauce and enough sugar to equal the amount found in jello by package weight. The lady with the red hots in the applesauce was spot on for the cinnamon taste.
Reviewed on Dec. 15, 2012 by Clifton66
These taste really good but they were a total pain to get off the waxed paper. I ended up flipping the batch over onto a 2nd piece of waxed paper and found that the hot water was essential for cutting. My fingers even got sticky. The water helped with that too. I used non-stick foil for my cut pieces.
Reviewed on Dec. 15, 2012 by cosmocohn
How about melting cinnamon red hots into the mixture, thats what I use to make cinnamon applesause. Good luck
Reviewed on Dec. 12, 2012 by jackiegene
How could I make the red ones cinnamon?? Any ideas.
Reviewed on Dec. 12, 2012 by dlsparrow
These are very good and fun to make. But you do need to spray your waxed paper with cooking spray so the gelatin won't stick. I am making more tomorrow!!
Reviewed on Dec. 12, 2012 by sstetzel
I wouldn't use oil flavoring with these. The flavor comes from the gelatin, try different flavors of that instead.
Reviewed on Dec. 12, 2012 by Gma2tex
This was so easy....everyone at my office asked for the recipe! Making another batch tonight!
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