Welcome to How To Cook That I am Ann Reardon
Today we are making a giant gummy lego man.
Because why wouldn't you want a make a giant gummy lego man?
To make our giant gummy we need water, sugar, glucose or light corn syrup, citric acid,
colour and flavouring.
You can use whatever colour or flavour you like I am using red and strawberry.
and we need sorbitol and gelatin.
The gelatin that I am using is 250 bloom.
Now the bloom is a measure of its setting strength.
normal powdered gelatin is around 100 bloom so this one is super strong gelatin.
I'll put all the recipe quantities on the howtocookthat.net website, and I'll put a
link to that in the description below.
Now I know some of you will ask can I leave out the sorbitol AND what happen if I just
use normal gelatin?
So I'll show you the difference.
This one is made from 250 bloom super strong gelatin and sorbitol
and this one is made using normal gelatin and no sorbitol.
They look similar but then if you feel them the texture is different.
It is the sorbitol or or you might see it labelled on the gummy bears as dextrose that
makes the gummies more flexible and give it the right gummy bear chewy mouth feel.
The other one here made without the sorbitol is more tough and rubbery in texture.
And that texture really does make a big difference when you are eating it.
The other difference you'll notice when you cut or bite into it is the one with normal
gelatin is opaque while the 250 bloom one is clearer.
That is easier to see if we get a thinner slice.
This one is the normal gelatin and this is the 250 bloom.
The stronger gelatin doesn't need as much of it to set the gummy so you end up with
a clearer, shinier product.
Now before you make it you need to prepare your mold and get that ll ready, I am using
a silicone lego man mold.
Just sprinkle it with cornflour or corn starch making sure it gets into all those edges and
then shake out the excess.
Now check that your mold is going to sit flat.
This one is rather low on the hands so liquid would just pour out there before the rest
was full.
Because the head is higher we need to add padding to the body and the feet area and
of course under his hands as well.
Build it up so that the top edge is all level all the way around.
Now we are ready to start.
Pour all the water into the gelatin and stir stir stir it through right away, just use
room temperature water it doesn't need to be hot or warm just cold is fine.
Then leave that to soften.
Put the sorbitol, sugar
and glucose syrup into a saucepan.
Then stir it over that over high heat, now the glucose syrup will melt down first but
we want to keep it over the heat so the sugar crystals can melt too.
Once it just starts to bubbling wash down the sides of the pan with a wet pastry brush
to get rid of any other sugar crystals down off the sides.
By the time you've done that it should be ready.
Take it off the heat and when the bubbles die down it should look clear, add your colour
and stir that through.
Now if it wasn't clear yet you can just put it back on the heat unstirred for a tiny bit
longer.
Once that colour is stirred add in the citric acid.
This is just for flavour it helps balance the sweetness of the sugar and glucose to
make it taste right.
and make it taste good.
Then add in your gelatin, by now it will of absorbed all the water and be one big chunk,
keep stirring it slowly so that it has a chance to melt.
Now you don't want any pieces of gelatin so just be patient and keep stirring it will
take about 2 minutes for that all to melt through.
Add your flavouring.
I am using Strawberry oil flavouring.
You can use oil or liquid flavouring whichever one you have.
Now pour the whole thing into the mold right up to the top.
Now the hard part, leave it over night at room temperature to set.
The next day loosen the edges by pulling the mold away from the gummi.
Then flip it over and peel off the mold.
And you have just made a giant gummi lego man.
That tastes exactly like the giant gummi bears do.
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