Fruit Snacks Recipe
Give your kids a chewy snack you can feel good about.
Overview
Total time: 40 S
Servings: 8
Calories: 72
Ingredients
- 3 cups mixed berries
- 1/2 cup 100% fruit juice
- 1/4 cup sugar, honey, or agave
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 3 tbsp. gelatin or 5 plain gelatin packets
Nutritional Information
- Serving Size: ¼ cup
- Fat: 0g
- Saturated Fat: 0g
- Cholesterol: 0mg
- Sodium: 0mg
- Carbohydrates: 15g
- Fiber: 2g
- Sugar: 12g
- Protein: 3g
Instructions
- Add berries and juice to FourSide or WildSide+ jar and secure lid. Select "Smoothie" setting. If you desire to remove seeds from fruit snacks, push the fruit puree through a sieve.
- Heat berry puree, sweetener, and vanilla in a saucepan over medium heat until bubbly. Remove from heat and slowly stir in gelatin until no clumps are visible.
- Pour into a 9x13 pan lined with parchment paper and refrigerate for at least one hour.
- Once snacks have set, remove from pan and cut into pieces.
Notes
For a vegetarian version, use agar powder in place of gelatin.
Does the fruit have to be fresh, or could you use frozen?
5 great questions but no answers… Does anyone ever answer? I’d like to try this too.
Made these yesterday. They turned out pretty good. I used frozen strawberries and frozen sliced strawberries in syrup and omitted the juice since the sliced berries came in syrup. I did struggle with getting the lumps out from the gelatin and left the sauce over heat to help dissolve them. Otherwise my toddler loves them and the husband too. They have the consistency of a firm jello.
It does NOT work with pineapple!
I’m sure you can use fresh or frozen fruit, you have to heat it up anyway. I am curious about storage, if you need to refrigerate or not after they set….
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