How to make VEGAN Gummy Worms!
By Lady make
How to make Vegan Gummy Worms!
Hello crafters and creative peoples! It's early in the morning on a beautiful Saturday in lovely Seattle Wa. and here I am having a craving for something sweet. Only the problem is I'm craving something that is generally made with an animal product, and I haven't eaten any of those in over 11 years... I want GUMMY WORMS! Fortunately for me I came up with this recipe some time ago when my dear sweet husband wouldn't give me a moment's rest until I found him some Gummy Worms that we could eat. They are by far his favorite candy and after you taste the wonder of VEGAN Gummy Candy I hope they will be yours too!
Please remember to read all the instructions before you begin, there are a few different options, for some steps so you'll have to decide which ones you're going to use!
Now then for this quick, easy and inexpensive recipe you'll need to gather the following materials:
8 table spoons Agar Agar powder (not flakes, they're not going to get solid enough!)
4 cups fruit juice (your favorite flavor!)
1 sauce pan
1 worm mold (you can find these at craft stores, and around Halloween, I got mine from a child's "mad scientist" candy kit!)
1 half cup corn starch (or close)
1 pinch of salt (really a pinch will do!)
Access to running water, stove, freezer...
4 table spoons of dry sweetener of your choice, I use sugar but you may omit this ingredient if you'd like. ( a liquid one will make it more runny, we don't want that!)
1 stirring device (plastic or wooden spoons work beautifully!)
1 sheet waxed paper
1 smashin' plate (see step 5)
Optional: citric acid or ascorbic acid spray (for sour gummy candy) Spray it on after they're done! You can find this at health food stores or online!
You can also choose to add a few drops of food coloring or flavoring (vanilla/lemon/etc.) Do this in Step 2!
You can also obviously use any other candy mold you'd like, I know of a guy who used Legos somehow, just make sure that you're using a food grade plastic for your mold!
Okay so now that you've got your materials together you can start making your GUMMY WORMS! In an area free of clutter, dogs, cats, gerbils and grabby small children you may begin with...
Step 1: Dust your worm mold with cornstarch. Dust it well enough to cover it completely but not so well that you're going to mess with the shape of your worms.Place in the freezer for later.
Step 2: Dissolve the Agar Agar powder, salt, sugar (And any optional coloring or flavoring) in your sauce pan. Let stand a few (maybe 5) minutes before applying to heat.Stir
Step 3:Place the pan (with all your yummy ingredients) on the stove and bring to a boil over medium heat. Stirring constantly, Boil until the mixture becomes thick.Think of the paste you used to make that one kid eat in grammar school, or that you ate in grammar school...Remove from heat.
Step 4:Take your dusted molds out of the freezer and place on a stable area ( a cleared counter top would be wonderful!) Now carefully but quickly (this stuff is hot folks!) dab the mixture into the molds. ( too much and they'll look weird, too little they'll look weird, just experiment!)
Step 5: place the wax paper on top of the mold tray. place your Smashin plate on top of the waxed paper. Now get to smashin! What I mean is, Apply pressure using your hands to the plate atop the waxed paper, atop the worms, inside the molds.
Step 6: Scrape off any of the mixture that is left over (not settled into the molds) and shape into whatever shapes you'd like. Place all of these and the mold (with the mixture in it) into the freezer for about 30 minutes.
Step 7: Remove the worms from the freezer. Spray on ascorbic acid/citric acid, roll in sugar, or leave plain. These are your gummy candies you can eat them now or chase your significant persons around the house with them it's your call!
I hope you love these wonderful Gummy Candies as much as we do!
Have fun making!
Lady Make
Comments
I tried these and they are very good. Well made tutorial. Keep up the good work!
I tried these and they are very good. Well made tutorial. Keep up the good work!
Love it!
Wow, this would be a really fun project for parents and kids (especially for parents who are raising their children vegan or vegetarian). Sometimes vegan recipes include too many obscure ingredients--either hard to find or rather pricey. This recipes looks great, though!
LOVE this!! I am so going to try this one day! Thanks for sharing!
this looks delicious, and there are so many products I wish didn't have gelatin in them. I miss the peach circles too, the blue sharks, the gummy soda bottles! If you ever want to form a vegan candy company, contact me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What an interesting hub.
I guess not being vegetarian I never thought of vegan candy.
Anyways your hub is now up on my blog.
You can find the link to my blog at the bottom of my profile page.
Cheers
Dale
how exciting! my husband loves gummy candy, too, but we don't eat it anymore because of the gelatin. i can't wait to tell him about this. thanks!
This is awesome! I've been looking for sour gummi worms without gelatin and not having luck. Do you think this recipe could be altered to make them sour?
What do you mean by dissolving the Agar Agar powder, salt, and sugar? do I require more water for that? Do I do it in the juice? Do I dissolve it over heat?
@ Tif- I just use a little of the liquid that I'll be using later in the recipe, so if i am using fruit juice I use a little of that as the mixture ends up in the rest of the recipe anyway, you wouldn't want to add more liquid or it will change the constancy ;) hope that helps!
I have tried this and for some reason my gummies are getting to hard. I have attempted twice and I used fruit juice with no sweetner what am I doing wrong? Please help I really want gummies!
I'm going to make these this week but I am just a bit curious about the cornstarch... Do you use the 1/2 cup in the mixture that gets heated, or is it just for dusting the mold????
Very interesting recipe. Worms, yikes! Kids will definitely love it.
This is a great hub!! Thanks! I only eat Halaal foods soo when i found out that they use pork in the gummie worm making process i was discusted! now i can make them for myself, and well maybe i give some to my kids too ;)... thanks again! =)
For everyone: Please note that the cornstarch is only for dusting the pan that goes into the freezer! The mixture is thickened by the Agar Agar flakes. I hope this helps :)
Have fun making!
Wow I will try these out one day. I've already found a great company that make vege gummi cola bottles and fruits called Biona. I've also found out that Haribo do a range of halal,kosher,vege gummi sweets including fizzy bottles, gummi bears and others. I love gummi sweets but son't eat them because of the gelatine.
Oh and recently launched in the US and UK is Goody Good Stuff www.goodygoodstuff.com vegan gummi sweets !! Hooray!!
hi, would vege-gel be an alternative to agar?
What is the yield for this recipe? Looks really cool.
sounds like fun
I would like to try out this recipe but I only have agar agar flakes.. if I mill them, will it work?
I just read online that 1 tsp of powder agar agar replaces 1 Tbs of agar agar flake (which replaces 1 tsp of gelatin).
Where can I get a plastic gummy worm mold with sizes from 6" to 12"?
Hi, i've been looking for a recipe like this for YEARS and i trust yours is great, but i have a liiiittle request, if you may help me... could you please put the ingredients in grams? i get really messed up with cups, tablespoons and stuff, especially bgeing from argentina and having everything different hahaa. thanks!
I made this, but halved the recipe... Maybe I did something wrong, but the gummies are... well grainy! The have this weird texture. Did I put too much agar agar? Did I undercook the gummies?
Rox, sounds like something didn't dissolve fully.
How long should it take to get thick?
I was wondering what the shelf life and storage recommendations are.
Just tried these. The consistency we got was really mealy. Not gummy/chewy at all. They look right, smell right, feel right and have a disastrous mouth feel. Is that the agar agar powder? Sometimes things vegan recipes come out like the originals and this one didn't. Bummer.
just made these(but without a mould so I just made a sheet) they are awesome! They are firmer then normal and more like the real juice ones you buy at the store. I'm going to try a pectin/agar combo next time. Also I added more agar during the heating because I didn't think it was getting thick enough which might have been a mistake since my were firm.
really good recipe!
sweetlips 2 years ago
OMG! I love this idea! I'll make some today!