- I'm cosplaying as a gummy bear!
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All right friends,
Halloween is just around the corner
and I have some issues with Halloween.
First and foremost,
a lot of gummy candies,
which is like my favorite thing,
are not vegan!
I still think it's weird that strangers
are giving out candy to children.
So, (laughs) I wanted to see
if I could make my own vegan version
of gummy bears at home.
Flip It is a series on my
channel where I take one thing,
and make it into the vegan thing.
So I'm going to take gummy bears today,
substitute out the gelatin,
which is not vegan,
and substitute in agar agar, which is.
(claps) So let's see if we
can make vegan gummy bears.
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(pouring)
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All right, what is agar agar you may ask?
It is a seaweed or an algae.
It has a little bit of a taste,
but not much, it's very mild.
But it acts the same way
gelatin does, almost 100%.
The only real difference is that
it doesn't quite get as hard
as traditional gummy bears,
which is fine,
they're just gummies that
are a little bit softer.
We are going to naturally sweeten them
and also naturally color them.
We're going to make a blue-purple color,
we're going to make an
orange flavor and color,
and we're going to make green ones.
And I'm going to use
spinach to turn it green.
I'm going to use an
orange to make it orange;
and taste like orange.
And I'm going to use
blueberries to make them purple.
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is my Halloween video,
that I have a new hair color.
Oh, if you guys want to know
where to get these
little gummy bear molds,
and then I not only have gummy bear molds,
but also little bears and little robots
and little dinosaurs.
I'll leave a link to the
Amazon thing that I used,
just in the description box.
Well, this comes with a dropper.
All right, to make these
as super, super simple,
depending on the flavor
combinations that you want,
and the color combinations that you want,
really the possibilities are endless.
What I like to use is just apple juice.
It has a pretty neutral flavor.
But you can use any sort of
juice that's your favorite
to achieve different flavors.
Another think that I am going to do
is just color them naturally as well,
by blending different ingredients
to get the color that I want.
So if you want like red,
you can use beets.
If you want purple,
you can use blueberries.
So all I'm going to do is
take the apple juice...
You could also do this
if you want cocktail gummy bears.
You can do this with wine as well.
I've done rosé ones,
they're so good.
But you just wanna blend whatever
you're using for the color
together with your liquid.
So whether it's water,
whether it's apple juice,
orange juice, wine,
blend that together in a blender
and add it to a small sauce pan.
Bring that liquid to a simmer
and add in your agar agar
and give it a good whisk.
Now you can taste it here
to see if it's sweet enough.
If you want to add extra sweetness,
add some agave in there
until it's dissolved.
This will also make it
a little bit chewier,
making it closer to the texture
of traditional gummy bears.
I find between maple syrup, agave,
and regular sugar,
the regular sugar sets the most naturally.
It does get a little bit chewier
than the agave or the maple syrup.
I opted out of maple syrup
just because you're always
going to have that maple taste.
Sugar and agave are a bit more neutral.
All right, so I brought these to a simmer
and then let them simmer
while stirring constantly
for about three minutes.
And now I'm going to take
my little eye dropper
and fill in my bears,
my gummy bears.
These are like little piggies.
I thought they were
piggies when I bought them,
but they're little panda bears,
gummy bears and robots.
So the green is looking a
little darker than I would like.
I would prefer it to be more vibrant.
I think you could probably mix in
a little bit of spirulina
but I just picked something
that was more neutral like spinach,
spirulina does have a taste.
But the cooking and oxidization
definitely made it brown.
So I'm just going to take my dropper
and then fill in the little molds.
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All right, so I'm sticking
them into the fridge.
I popped up a couple just to test them.
I have some here,
some up here.
My freezer's pretty full,
so I also stuck some in the fridge,
but I'm going to let them set.
Now a lot of websites
say just 10-15 minutes.
I'm gonna leave it for a
couple hours and come back.
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All right, I've popped
a couple of them out.
Look at that little guy.
A little teddy bear.
I mean obviously this
is a tiny little mold,
but you can get bigger ones.
Like I said before,
the texture is different
than a gummy bear,
it doesn't have that
squeaky gummy chewiness,
it's a little bit softer.
But they're really tasty.
I was thinking,
if you wanted to do sour versions,
you could probably add
some Vitamin C powder
or citric acid powder,
which is just Vitamin C,
and then you get that tang.
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