Vitamin fruit snacks!

I recently saw a video on making fruit gummy snacks. I figured my daughter would LOVE these, but they aren't the healthiest thing out there. Not by a long shot. So, I doctored them a little. How? Why, adding vitamins, of course! I grabbed everything needed for the fruit snacks, some vitamins suitable for her age, and got to work. You CAN overdose on certain vitamins and minerals, but if you don't add the entire bottle for a 1 year old, you should be fine. Just use common sense and don't give them all of the fruit snacks at once. I added 12 to a single batch. I just mixed the flavors because once its all ground up and dissolved, the flavor would be hidden.


Things you will need:
-8-12 chew-able vitamins
-1/2 cup COLD water
-1/4 cup corn syrup
-1 box flavored gelatin-your child's favorite
-2 envelopes unflavored gelatin

First, grind the vitamins to a fine powder. I used a mortar and pestle, but you could easily use a coffee or spice grinder. Just make sure there are no chunks!

Next, mix the corn syrup and cold water. Make sure the corn syrup is 100% dissolved. Add the flavored and unflavored gelatin. MIX WELL. This part takes a bit of work, but make sure there are NO clumps. Mix in vitamin powder.

Place in a pot on LOW heat until mix is heated through. It does not need to boil, but should have a little steam. Turn off heat and let sit for 5 minutes. Skim the cruddy foam off the top with a spoon. Its super easy after letting the top solidify. Then, poor it into a pan or mold and let it harden! You could easily do fun shapes, we just couldn't find any small ones at the last second. So, I poured my mix in a loaf pan and let it cool that way. Once cool, pull out of the pan. If you didn't use a mold, you will need to cut these down to bite size pieces. Its rather easy, so don't be put off by it.

Just gather a cutting board, SHARP knife, some sort of grease (I used spray, but anything would work), and your slab of gummy!

The gummy peeled out of mine SO easily! I just pulled the slab out and slapped it onto the cutting board. Grease your knife and cut away! Super easy!

Now, my runt can have all the fruit snacks she wants.....because I'll know I am sneaking her vitamins in!