Almost everyone loves sweets, especially children. And to enjoy such a delicacy, you don't have to go to a store or pastry shop. For example, delicious jelly candies can be made at home.

Cooking options

How to make homemade jelly candies? Several ways are suggested below.

Method number 1

The easiest way of cooking is from jelly, that is, a ready-made jelly mixture that can be purchased at any store.

Here's what you need:

• one pack of store-bought jelly dry mix;
• three teaspoons of gelatin;
• glass of water.

Process description:

1. First, fill the gelatin with a small amount of cold water so that it swells. Leave it on for fifteen minutes.
2. Pour the remaining water into a saucepan and bring to a boil. After a minute, add the jelly mixture to it, mix everything well.
3. Then add gelatin that has had time to swell into the mixture, stir again so that all components are completely dissolved.
4. Pour the slightly cooled liquid into molds and send to the refrigerator.
5. After about an hour and a half, the candies will solidify and be ready to serve.

Method number 2

You can make natural candies from berries, such as black currant. Composition:

• 1 kg of black currant;
• 300-400 g of granulated sugar;
• 50 ml of water;
• 2 tsp gelatin.

Instructions:

1. Rinse the berries well, place on a ceramic or glass baking sheet and place in the oven for half an hour.
2. Take out the currants, cool it a little, rub through a sieve, cover the skins with sugar and leave for an hour. Next, wipe the mass through a sieve again, mix the resulting syrup with berry pulp, and discard the skins.
3. Pour the mass into a saucepan, put on fire and cook until thickened.
4. Pour gelatin with cool water, and when it swells, add it to hot thick currant syrup. Stir everything, cool.
5. Pour the syrup into molds and refrigerate to freeze the candy.

Method number 3

Make candy with fruits like apples. Would need:

• 300 grams of apples;
• 0.5 l of water;
• 1.5 cups of sugar;
• 1-1.5 tsp gelatin.

Cooking description:

1. Peel the apples, remove the cores. Place them in a saucepan, cover with water (leave a little for gelatin), put on fire. Cook the fruit until tender.
2. Pour gelatin with the remaining cool water, leave to swell.
3. Grind boiled apples together with liquid in a blender. Heat the mixture a little if it is very cold. Next, add gelatin to it so that it dissolves completely.
4. Pour the applesauce into tins and place the dessert in the refrigerator to freeze.

Method number 4

Chocolate sweets will be incredibly tasty. How do you make them? First, prepare the ingredients:

• 15 g (three teaspoons) gelatin;
• 150 g of chocolate (preferably dark);
• about 300 ml of cream (fat content does not matter);
• a bag of vanillin.

Instructions:

1. First, pour 200 ml of chilled cream over the gelatin, let it stand and swell, then pour the mixture into a saucepan and heat to completely dissolve the gelatin crystals.
2. Pour the remaining cream into a bowl, chop the chocolate there, and then place the container either in the microwave or in a water bath. When the chocolate melts, pour this composition into the cream with the gelatin dissolved in it, also add the vanillin and stir everything thoroughly again.
3. Pour the chocolate-creamy liquid mass into molds, send to the refrigerator.
4. When the dessert hardens, remove the candies from the molds and serve with tea.

Method number 5

To make cherry sweets you will need:

• a glass of natural cherry juice;
• half a glass of granulated sugar;
• three to four teaspoons of gelatin.

Preparation:

1. First, pour the cool juice over the gelatin. When it swells, put the container on fire.
2. Keep the composition on fire and stir it to dissolve the gelatin.
3. Add granulated sugar, stir it.
4. Pour the sweet juice with gelatin into the molds, put in the refrigerator and wait.
5. When the candies have set, they can be removed and served.

Tips for housewives:

1. You can make homemade jelly candies with filling. To do this, before sending to the refrigerator, add pieces of fruit or, for example, candied fruits to the mixture (fruits can be added at the heating stage to soften them).
2. You can get sweets of absolutely any shape, for example, bears, cherries, strawberries, and so on. Just get interesting molds.
3. Finished sweets can be sprinkled with powdered sugar, then they will not stick together.

Delight guests or family members by serving delicious homemade jelly candies for tea!

Required Ingredients:

• Chocolate (72%) - 150 g
• Gelatin - 15 g
• Cream (10-33%) - 300ml
• Almond flavoring - 1/3 tsp.

Cooking is quite fun. After all, every time you can get a new, unique handmade product. The process of making sweets only at first glance seems complicated, in fact it is very easy and simple. Why not try yourself as a chocolatier and make chocolates and jelly candies for children and adults at home? By the way, such sweets can be made - they will surely like such a delicacy.

How to make chocolate jelly candies:

Marmalade and jelly candies are popular not only for children, but also for adults. You can cook them yourself from a simple set of products. The main thing is to follow the sequence. Homemade jelly candies are made using agar-agar or gelatin. Such a delicacy can be prepared from natural berries or fruits.

What is added to such sweets?

To make jelly candies at home, you can use any berries, fruits, and even vegetables. Carrots or pumpkin are ideal. When making a treat, you should take into account the amount of pectin in berries and fruits. The more of this component, the less gelatin is required. This also applies to granulated sugar. If the fruit is sweet, add less. The amount of sugar can be varied according to your own preference.

Jelly candies at home can be made not only from a certain type of fruit, but also from a mixture. The treat can also be chocolate or dairy. Candied fruits, fruit puree or juice are often added to such candies. If desired, the delicacy can be made in any shape, multi-layered and even covered with glaze. For the manufacture of jelly candies, silicone molds are used.

Pumpkin sweets

The recipe for homemade jelly candies is quite simple. To prepare such a delicacy, few products are required. To make pumpkin candy, you need to have on hand:

• 1 kg of pumpkin pulp.
• 1 kg of regular sugar.
• About 4 glasses of water.

Food preparation

So how to make jelly candies at home? First you need to prepare the pumpkin. It is recommended to peel the vegetable and then cut it into small cubes. Shredded pumpkin should be transferred to a saucepan, and then add 0.5 kg of granulated sugar. The vegetable should be left under sugar for 8 hours. During this period, the pumpkin will let out the juice. The container should be placed on low heat. Its contents must be boiled. After that, the pumpkin should be left for several hours to cool.

It is worth making a syrup from the remaining sugar and water. For this, the components are combined in a saucepan and put on fire. Half of the water should boil away. The finished syrup should be cooled, and then added to the container with the pumpkin. The mixture must be brought to a boil and then removed from heat. The mass should be left for 10 hours.

The final stage

Jelly candies are prepared at home for a long time. When the pumpkin has cooled down, you need to drain the sugar syrup, and then boil it for about 20 minutes, preferably over low heat. Then the vegetable pieces need to be poured over with liquid again. It is recommended to repeat the procedure until the syrup becomes thick enough. For aroma, you can add a little orange essence to it. Pieces of pumpkin should be carefully removed from the container with a fork and dried. It is recommended to store the finished delicacy in a glass container in the refrigerator.

Peach candies

To prepare a treat you will need:

• Granulated sugar - 400 g.
• Peaches - 400 g.
• Lemon juice - about 1 spoon.
• Liquid pectin - 3 large spoons.

Cooking process

Peaches must be mashed. The mass should be passed through a sieve. This will remove the skin. In a deep saucepan, mix mashed potatoes, 100 grams of sugar and lemon juice. The mixture must be brought to a boil and cook for 15 minutes over low heat. The liquid should evaporate completely.

After that, pectin and sugar residues should be added to the container. While stirring the mixture, increase the heat under the pan. It takes about 10 minutes to cook the delicacy. The mass should be thick enough. The mixture must be put in pre-prepared forms and cooled. The jelly candies are ready. If one large form was used to prepare a treat, then its contents should be cut into portioned pieces.

Jelly candies are an incredibly tasty and simple dessert that anyone can make. Moreover, the ingredients will always be found in the kitchen, and it will take very little time to make a sweet dish.

The composition of jelly candies includes a product useful for the body - gelatin.

In addition, it contains a number of other elements, namely:

• pectin;
• fruit fillings in the form of juice, jam and berries;
• granulated sugar;
• food colorings;
• flavors.

Despite the abundance of ingredients, these candies are considered low in calories, so they are often consumed with various diets. It is also worth noting that you can enjoy such a dessert every day and not be afraid of being overweight, since one hundred grams of sweets contains no more than 260 kcal. But this applies only to those products that are made from natural raw materials. In chocolate-coated sweets, the calorie content will be much higher.

Self-made jelly candies will delight not only children, but also adults. In addition, natural ingredients and low-calorie composition will not cause allergies and will not add excess weight.

The easiest jelly candy recipe from jelly

The easiest and fastest way to make is to use ready-made jelly, which can be purchased at any grocery store.

The recipe will need the following components:

• jelly dry mix - 1 pack;
• gelatin - 1 tsp;
• drinking water - 1 glass.

To make delicious sweets, you need to follow these steps:

1. A small amount of liquid is added to the gelatin, the mixture is left to swell for 10-15 minutes.
2. The remaining liquid is poured into a saucepan and boiled, as soon as bubbles form in the water, the jelly powder is poured, not forgetting to constantly stir the solution.
3. Swollen gelatin is poured into the total mixture and everything is thoroughly mixed again so that the ingredients can completely dissolve.
4. Turn off the heat and allow the mass to cool slightly.

Once the mixture has cooled, pour it into molds and put it in the refrigerator or other cold place. An hour later, you can taste the sweets.

Natural sweets from berries

There are several recipes for making jelly candies from berries. You can use only one type of berries or use a combined version.

For this method of making sweets, you will need:

• fresh or frozen raspberries - 200 g;
• water - 20 ml;
• gelatin - 10 g;
• granulated sugar - 50 g.

The cooking instructions are as follows:

• First, you need to dilute the gelatin in a small volume of water and wait until the powder swells well.
• Then sort, rinse and crush, or rub the berry through a sieve.
• All prepared ingredients are placed in a small saucepan, placed on the stove and brought to a hot state, but not brought to a boil, constantly stirring the berry mixture.
• After the granulated sugar and gelatin dissolve, strain the berry mixture through a sieve again.

It remains to pour the sweet mass into molds and put it in the refrigerator for a while so that the gelatin hardens. After a while, get the sweets and sprinkle them with powdered sugar.

Cooking on agar-agar

You can make a homemade jelly treat that includes agar agar. Such candies do not contain dyes and preservatives, so they can be given even to babies.

The recipe includes:

• any berry puree - 250 g;
• water - 200 ml;
• granulated sugar - 100 g;
• agar-agar - 5 g.

Sweets making process:

1. Water is poured into a saucepan and brought to a boil.
2. Agar-agar is poured into a boiling liquid and the solution is stirred until the powder is completely dissolved, as a rule, this takes about 2 minutes.
3. Remove the container from the stove, add granulated sugar and berry mass, knead and bring to a boil again.
4. After the syrup has cooled, it is poured into a flat container and put into the refrigerator for several hours.

It remains to cut the finished jelly into squares or circles, sprinkle with powdered sugar. For storing sweets, it is better to use glassware with an airtight lid.

How to make fruit jelly candies

Another very easy way to make jelly candies. For making, you can use any fruit available in the house.

In this case, the following ingredients will be used:

• fresh pears - 3-4 fruits;
• water - 100 ml;
• granulated sugar - 1 tbsp. spoon;
• gelatin - 30 g.

In order to make sweet jelly sweets, you need to follow these steps:

1. First, pears are washed and cut.
2. Fruits are put into a small container and some water is poured, put on fire and boiled until soft.
3. Using a blender or a wooden crush, crush the pear, then grind the mass through a special sieve.
4. Put the pear puree on the fire again, add granulated sugar and cook for 5 minutes, stirring constantly.
5. Gelatin is poured with water and allowed to brew, as soon as the mass swells, add it to hot fruits.
6. Stir everything and turn off the stove.

Wait a little for the berry jelly to cool, pour into a mold and allow time to harden. As soon as the candies hold their shape, you can eat them.

Add sugar, wait until it also dissolves and turn off the heat.

As soon as the jelly cools down, pour it into the prepared forms and remove to solidify in a cold place.

Jelly candies are considered one of the most useful types of confectionery today. This is because they contain few chemical ingredients that have a detrimental effect on health, including no palm oil that clogs blood vessels and provokes the development of atherosclerosis, stroke and myocardial infarction. However, it is in your power to make candies from gelatin at home, thereby eliminating even the potential harm from the use of this delicacy.

What is this dessert?

Homemade jelly candies are prepared on the basis of. This ingredient imparts to the sweet delicacy the property to positively influence the skeletal system and musculoskeletal system, skin, hair, nails and teeth. The fact is that gelatin is pure animal collagen. And this protein, in turn, is responsible for the elasticity and strengthening of tissues.

Concentrated fruit juices, berries, cottage cheese, cocoa powder, vanilla, cinnamon, coffee become additional components of homemade gelatin sweets. Be sure to add sugar syrup or honey to them. Because of the sweet ingredients, gelatinous candies should not be eaten in large quantities. This is especially true for adults and overweight children.

Gelatin candy making tricks

To enjoy the incredible taste of homemade gelatinous candies, you need to know the basic principles of making a sweet treat. So how to make jelly candies at home?

• Gelatin. To swell and form jelly, it should be placed in a deep container filled with cold water. The gelatinous mixture should be infused for 15-20 minutes to obtain the desired consistency and texture.
• How to make sugar syrup for jelly candies? Pour ¾ cup water into a saucepan. Place the container on the stove, bring to a boil. Then add granulated sugar to the water. Stir the solution until the sugar is completely dissolved. Simmer the sugar syrup over low heat for another 5 minutes, then remove from the stove.

• After adding the ingredients provided for a specific recipe to the gelatin mixture, it is necessary to pour the treat into molds. Then the dessert must be cooled to room temperature (let it stand indoors) and sent to solidify in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.
• It is not forbidden to give homemade jelly candies the desired color and smell by using food colors and flavors. But here it is also important not to overdo it. And, of course, remember about naturalness and healthiness.
• At home, you can use both portion molds and baking dishes to solidify gelatin candies. Simply in the second case, you will have to cut the gelatinous layer into squares, rectangles or triangles, which will require additional time and effort on your part. The form must first be greased with vegetable oil so that future sweets do not stick to its bottom and it would be easier to remove them in finished form. Alternatively, cover the bottom of the baking dish with foil, which you in turn moisten with special cooking spray.
• Ready-made sweets should be rolled in powdered sugar, sesame or coconut - according to your taste or depending on the prescriptions of a particular culinary recipe.

• You need to store gelatin candies in a hermetically sealed glass or plastic container, preferably in the refrigerator, but you can also outside at room temperature.
• When cooking sugar syrup, do not leave the sweet solution unattended and do not forget to stir it more often to avoid accidents (if there are children in the house) and the treats sticking.

Jelly Candy Recipes

Now about the most delicious. We offer you recipes for the most useful jelly candies that can be easily and quickly made at home.

Sweets "Classic"
You will need: cold water - 100 ml, sugar or any fruit syrup - 200 ml, gelatin - 12 tsp.
How to cook. Take a saucepan, pour gelatin there. After pouring in cold water, add 100 ml of syrup. Leave the mixture alone for 10 minutes. After this time, heat it over low heat until the gelatin is completely dissolved. When this happens, add the remaining 100 ml of syrup to the gelatin solution, mix. Pour it into silicone molds, send it to the refrigerator for solidification.

Jelly candies "Forest berry"
The composition of the delicacy: mixed berries (blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, currants, blueberries, etc.) - 200 g, freshly squeezed orange juice - 1 glass, gelatin - 8 tbsp.
How to cook. Place the berries in a saucepan, cover them with citrus juice. Put the mixture on low heat, close the container with a lid. Keep the berries on the stove until they are tender. Now beat the berry mixture until a homogeneous mass is obtained, add gelatin. Place the pot over the fire again. Wait until the gelatin dissolves, remove the container, cool for 10 minutes. Pour the berry-gelatin mixture into molds. Place the treat in the refrigerator to freeze.

Sweets "Juicy"
Required ingredients: gelatin (12 tsp), your favorite juice, preferably freshly squeezed (200 ml); some honey.
How to cook. Pour the juice over the gelatin. After 10 minutes, turn on the fire under the saucepan with the mixture and heat the contents of the container until the gelatin dissolves. Then add honey to the future treat if the solution seems not sweet enough to you. Pour the gelatin mixture into molds. Let the dessert cool at room temperature. Freeze it, send it to the refrigerator.

Jelly sweets "Exotic"
Ingredients: 5 tbsp. water, 3 tbsp. gelatin powder, 2 tbsp. liquid bee honey, 1 carambola fruit, half a glass of lemon juice.
How to cook. Pour gelatin with water, leave the mixture to swell. During this time, free from the outer shell and cut the carambola into slices, squeeze the juice from the lemons. After the gelatin swells, the jelly solution must be put on fire. Simmer the mixture over low heat, stirring occasionally. When the gelatin has dissolved, add honey and citrus juice to a saucepan.

Stir again. Put pieces of exotic fruit on the bottom of the molds for gelatine sweets, fill them with the prepared sweet gelatin mixture. The dessert will freeze in the refrigerator.

Candy with gelatin "Currant"
You will need: 200 g of granulated sugar, 1 tsp. gelatin, 50 ml of water, 500 g of black or red currant berries.
How to cook. The fruits need to be washed, dried, then boiled for five minutes and rubbed through a fine sieve. At the end, the skins and seeds should be removed from the berry puree. The currant gruel must be combined with sugar, put the pan with this mixture on low heat and cook until the sweet component of the dessert dissolves.

Gelatin is poured with cold water, after swelling, it is introduced into the hot berry mixture. The resulting mass is poured into molds, which, after cooling to a warm state, are removed to the refrigerator. Ready candies should be rolled in powdered sugar.

Gummy Bears
The composition of the delicacy: 240 ml of any juice, 1 tbsp. honey, 3 tbsp. powdered gelatin.
How to cook. Pour the juice over the gelatin in a saucepan, heat the mixture and bring it to a boil, remembering to stir frequently. Let it simmer for 1 minute, then remove the container from the heat. Fill the jelly with special silicone molds for making "bears" using a pipette. Send them to the freezer for 20 minutes. Store the product in the refrigerator.

Use our recipes, make jelly candies for health and pleasure. Bon Appetit!