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Homemade Halloween Candy – Gumdrop Ghosts

October 7, 2013 This post may contain affiliate links.

Celebrate Halloween with these adorable Gumdrop Ghosts! This fun homemade Halloween candy is so much better than any store-bought gumdrops.

This year make some Homemade Halloween Candy - Gum Drop Ghosts! These adorable, tasty treats are the perfect candy to stick in those trick-or-treat bags or simply enjoy for yourself.

I wouldn’t mind being haunted by a few of these gumdrop ghosts on October 31st or any time of year for that matter.

These little guys look as sweet as they taste.

So if my Brain Hemorrhage Gumdrops were a bit too gross for you to handle, these should be more appealing.

This year make some Homemade Halloween Candy - Gum Drop Ghosts! These adorable, tasty treats are the perfect candy to stick in those trick-or-treat bags or simply enjoy for yourself.

In order to make these adorable Halloween candies, you first need to make a batch of homemade gumdrops.

I mentioned in my last post that Sure-Jell makes a nice clear pectin which I used to make my brains. I only had one box but had a box of pectin from Ball, so I thought I’d just use that. Well, when I opened it I noticed that the powder was light brown. I hoped it would turn clear as it cooked.

This year make some Homemade Halloween Candy - Gum Drop Ghosts! These adorable, tasty treats are the perfect candy to stick in those trick-or-treat bags or simply enjoy for yourself.

It didn’t and whoever heard of a brown ghost?

To make a ghostly white color, I had to add some white icing coloring. I’m betting this isn’t something many of you have in your pantry, so I do suggest just getting a clear pectin powder.

If you do have the white coloring, you can add it to make your candies nice an opaque.

This year make some Homemade Halloween Candy - Gum Drop Ghosts! These adorable, tasty treats are the perfect candy to stick in those trick-or-treat bags or simply enjoy for yourself.

Gumdrop Ghosts

Ingredients: (makes about 20 ghosts)

butter (to grease pan and gingerbread man mold)
3/4 cup water
1 (1.75 ounce) package powdered fruit pectin (original not low or no sugar pectin)*
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup sugar
1 cup light corn syrup plus a small amount more to attach eyes
1/4 -1/2 teaspoon flavored oil *
optional, white food coloring
granulated sugar to coat gumdrops
candy eyes
black food coloring marker

*NOTES:

  • You want pectin that is white or clear looking. Read the explanation in the post above.
  • I used orange candy flavoring to flavor these gumdrops but you can use any candy flavoring you like.

Supplies:

1 Wilton 24 cavity mini Gingerbread Silicone Mold (lightly greased with butter)
optional, food handling glove to help with greasing your molds
1 1/2  or 2 quart saucepan, preferably a good quality stainless steel pan
2 or 3-quart saucepan
candy thermometer
glass bowl with spout or a glass mixing bowl

Instructions: 

This year make some Homemade Halloween Candy - Gum Drop Ghosts! These adorable, tasty treats are the perfect candy to stick in those trick-or-treat bags or simply enjoy for yourself.

  • Make one batch of gumdrops (see recipe, here.)
  • Add white coloring, if using, or just leave the mixture clear.

This year make some Homemade Halloween Candy - Gum Drop Ghosts! These adorable, tasty treats are the perfect candy to stick in those trick-or-treat bags or simply enjoy for yourself.

  • Carefully pour the hot mixture into a buttered gingerbread mold.
  • Allow gumdrops to cool and harden for about 8 hours.
  • To speed things up, you can allow them to cool for an hour then freeze them for about 30 minutes.

This year make some Homemade Halloween Candy - Gum Drop Ghosts! These adorable, tasty treats are the perfect candy to stick in those trick-or-treat bags or simply enjoy for yourself.

  • To un-mold your ghosts, turn the mold upside down and press the candies out onto a tray covered in granulated sugar.
  • Coat ghosts entirely in sugar.

This year make some Homemade Halloween Candy - Gum Drop Ghosts! These adorable, tasty treats are the perfect candy to stick in those trick-or-treat bags or simply enjoy for yourself.

  • Use corn syrup to attach two candy eyes to each gumdrop ghost.
  • Draw on a mouth using a black food coloring marker.

This year make some Homemade Halloween Candy - Gum Drop Ghosts! These adorable, tasty treats are the perfect candy to stick in those trick-or-treat bags or simply enjoy for yourself.

  • Store in an airtight container for up to a month.

More Homemade Candy Recipes for Halloween
from Hungry Happenings

Creepy Gumdrop Brains

Black Cat Truffle Pops

Handpainted Lollipops

Jeepers Creepers Candy Bars

Chocolate Pumpkin Truffles

More Homemade Gumdrops

Star Spangled Gumdrops

Homemade Sour Gummy Bunnies

Filed Under: Halloween Recipes Tagged With: Candy, dessert, gumdrops, holiday food, party, snacks

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Comments

  1. Ashlee Mayer

    October 7, 2013 at 2:29 pm

    Adorable!! ~ Ashlee @ Thecrunchymoose.blogspot.com

    Reply
  2. Anonymous

    October 7, 2013 at 4:20 pm

    These are really cute. I love them. Thanks for these. Trish Butler

    Reply
  3. Heather - Chickabug

    October 7, 2013 at 5:10 pm

    Cutest ghosts I've ever seen! They look so sweet and harmless! I really like these! Thank you! : )

    Reply
  4. The Bearfoot Baker

    October 7, 2013 at 9:13 pm

    I never in a million years would have thought of using a gingerbread mold for ghosts! You are so creative!!! I love the added sugar. Pinning now 🙂

    Reply
  5. The Partiologist

    October 8, 2013 at 12:59 am

    Can you believe I've never made homemade gumdrops? Well, I have that pan and so I'm thinking – gingerbread
    gumdrops?? I better start now so I have it figured out before Christmas! 🙂

    Reply
  6. The Partiologist

    October 8, 2013 at 1:00 am

    P.S. I wasn't finished…I love your happy little ghosts! 🙂

    Reply
  7. Pamela @ Brooklyn Farm Girl

    October 8, 2013 at 4:17 am

    These are too cute, made me smile!

    Reply
  8. MissCandiquik

    October 8, 2013 at 1:32 pm

    these are too cute! Thanks for sharing 🙂

    Reply
  9. Vanessa

    October 9, 2013 at 12:18 am

    Not scary at all. 🙂 So adorable!

    Reply
  10. Karen @ Sugartown Sweets

    October 9, 2013 at 1:18 am

    These are so adorable!! I love the tiny little gingerbread man pan photo too..I think I need one! One of my favorite things to do is to recreate candies at home that I always thought had to be store bought. Great idea. :o)

    Reply
    • beth

      October 9, 2013 at 1:57 am

      Making homemade candies is really fun and they usually do taste much better than store bought stuff. I love that I can flavor these however I want. I made banana gumdrops once. I've never seen those in a store!

      Reply
  11. Emma @ P is for Preschooler

    October 11, 2013 at 12:15 pm

    These are adorable! Almost too cute to eat (I think I'd manage though, lol!)

    Reply
  12. Natalie Barrett

    October 11, 2013 at 10:36 pm

    Those ghosts are too cute! I think I am going to use this idea with homemade marshmallows. 🙂

    Reply
    • beth

      October 11, 2013 at 10:53 pm

      Thanks, Natalie. If you make the marshmallows, I'd love to share some pictures.

      Reply
  13. Jen Nikolaus

    October 12, 2013 at 4:53 am

    These are SO CUTE and so clever!! I had to click over from Tatertots and Jello! Pinning to my Fall & Halloween pin board! Thanks!

    Reply
    • beth

      October 12, 2013 at 12:01 pm

      Thanks for stopping by, Jen and thanks for pinning!

      Reply
  14. Claire Hartburn

    October 12, 2013 at 9:51 pm

    Great project !!

    I would love you to come and share @ Craft, Create & Inspire linky party !!!

    Look forward to seeing you there 🙂

    http://lemonpaperdesigns.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/craft-create-inspire-linky-party.html

    Claire x

    Reply
  15. Catherine Holt

    October 21, 2013 at 8:43 am

    These have to be the cutest ghosts I have ever seen! How adorable are they, and they look pretty tasty too!

    Reply

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