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    Home » Holiday Treats and Recipes » Easter Recipes

    Homemade sour Easter gumdrops

    Published: Mar 28, '20 · Modified: Feb 14, '23 · By: Beth · This post may contain affiliate links.

    Fill your Easter baskets and candy dishes with these cute homemade sour Easter gumdrops. These brightly shaped Easter candies are shaped like bunnies, eggs, carrots, and chicks and coated in sour sugar.

    brightly colored homemade sour easter gumdrops in bunny, carrot, chick, and egg shapes

    If you have never tried homemade gumdrops, you definitely should! There is no comparison to store-bought gumdrops and homemade gumdrops. They are soft and delicately chewy, not sticky.

    Plus you can flavor them using any candy flavoring oils you like. So if you enjoy green apple or pear or peach or even bubble gum you can use those flavors.

    My favorite is green apple and I love to give my candies a little sour punch.

    These cute bunny, carrot, chick, and Easter egg shaped sour gumdrops are soft and chewy and really delicious.

    To add a sour flavor to your candies you can toss your sugar with citric acid powder then roll the gumdrops in the sour sugar.

    You can also color your sugar using food coloring. Just toss some sugar in a small zip-top bag, add a few drops of liquid food coloring, and toss and knead the coloring into the sugar.

    use pectin, baking soda, and water to make homemade gumdrops

    boil sugar and corn syrup to make homemade gumdrops

    These gumdrops are made using pectin so they have a nice soft texture unlike gumdrops made using gelatin. Be sure not to use low sugar or no sugar pectin. Those will not work in this recipe.

    I highly recommend you have a candy thermometer or my favorite instant-read thermometer, a Thermapen in order to make this recipe.

    I left these gumdrops clear then coated them in colored sugar. If you are making a full batch of one Easter shape then you can add food coloring to the candy mixture if you want your candies to be colorful all the way through.

     

    Recipe

    You can find the recipe to make
    these sour Easter gumdrops at Dixie Crystals.com.

     

     

    Learn how to make homemade gumdrops. See tutorials for Gumdrop Star, Brains, Skulls, and More at HungryHappenings.com.

    You can find tutorials and recipes to make these other homemade gumdrops, here.

     

     

     

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    Hi, I'm Beth Jackson Klosterboer, a professional chocolatier & baker, cookbook author, and event planner. I love sharing recipes for happy occasions here on Hungry Happenings. I also create easy fudge recipes to share at HowToMakeEasyFudge.com, rice krispie treat recipes at HowToMakeCerealTreats.com, and easy cookie recipes at HowToMakeEasyCookies.com
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    1. candy curious

      April 01, 2020 at 10:26 pm

      If I wanted to add food coloring to the mixture, drops or gel and how much? thanks!

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      • Beth

        April 01, 2020 at 11:23 pm

        I would use liquid food coloring to color the gumdrops. The number of drops will depend on the color you use. Start with a few drops, then add more as needed. Also note that some brands of pectin are fairly clear while others are a bit more tan. That will also affect the color of the candy.

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