In today's video,
we are making some gummy candy out of fruit.
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Guys, Benjamin Librado asked,
if we could make a gummy coconut.
Yes, we can.
I think we can do more than just that.
Instead of just going for a gummy coconut,
we thought we would try a few different types of fruit.
So here we've got a coconut, an avocado, a couple limes,
and several grapes.
And we have ideas of how to make gummy versions of all of these.
Let's get started.
Here's the basic idea.
We have four different kinds of fruit.
We are going to find a different way to hollow each one out,
and fill them with gummy candy.
All right.
So first thing we're going to do,
we need to hollow out this coconut.
Now, you guys have seen in previous videos
how Grant breaks open a coconut,
you get a perfectly clean cut.
So we're going to do that.
So we're going to take this outside.
When Grant did this,
he used a sharp rock, the edge of it on the coconut.
I was actually able to smash my coconut open
just using flat ground.
So I'm going to try that again.
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Well, look at that.
Nice.
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So this one,
we won't even have to worry about carving out at all.
That piece came right out.
So while Nate finishes cleaning out the coconuts,
I'm going to go ahead and start on the gummy candy center.
We are going to be using some Knox gelatine,
some heavy whipping cream, sweetened condensed milk,
and some flavoring.
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In previous videos,
you guys have seen Grant make Lego gummy candy,
and we're going to be using a similar recipe,
but we're actually going
to be making this even a little bit more solid,
and it's going to be opaque,
because we want it to look just like a coconut inside.
Measurements for this are really simple.
I used about 3/4 of a cup of water,
1/2 cup of heavy whipping cream,
1/2 a cup of sweetened condensed milk.
I'll be adding a little bit of flavoring,
and we'll be adding 3, maybe 4 packets of gelatin.
So now that I've got a bit of a simmering boil,
that's as hot as we really need this.
So because we want this coconut to cure pretty fast,
I'm going to be using four packets of gelatin
and cold water,
which I'll be adding to our gummy candy.
If you wanted this to be a little bit softer,
you could use maybe
even 2 and 1/2 packets, and it would be just fine.
Disgusting.
But that's how you make a gummy candy.
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We've got a couple of coconut halves
that fit nicely together,
and we are going to need to seal these off.
So what we're going to do actually is take some sandpaper,
and just sand down the edges,
because we are going to use some tape to hold these together
while our gummy cures inside.
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One spot is refusing to stay.
I'm gonna put more tape on it.
If it doesn't work with duct tape,
you're not using enough duct tape.
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Go kick it around in the snow.
Nate!
Go on.
It's a coconut, that'll hurt.
Probably shouldn't be in sneakers.
Oh, my sneakers are new and very waterproof.
Oh, I can tell.
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My shoe is off.
You weren't paying attention.
In case anybody is wondering why we're doing this randomness,
we're trying to cool them down in the snow,
because it's actually a whole lot colder out here
than it is in our fridge.
So our coconuts have to keep rotating to make sure
that we create a hollow inside for them when we cut them open.
So I left Nate out in the snow,
and I'm going to go and start on the other fruits.
I don't know about you guys, but I don't think
that an avocado flavor gummy candies going to be good.
So I think I'm going to go with mint for this one.
Cool.
Now let's make a filling.
Measurements for this one are going to be just the same
as we did for the coconut filling.
So I've got 3/4 of a cup of water,
1/2 a cup of heavy cream,
1/2 a cup of sweetened condensed milk,
and then we'll be adding
in about 1/2 cup of cold water with our gelatin in it after.
This will be the mintiest avocado there ever was.
We are going to add one other thing
that we didn't add to the coconut.
Food coloring.
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That's kind of the color of an avocado.
You don't have to use this much gelatin.
This is kind of overkill.
We just really want to make sure that this cures fast.
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Next up, limes.
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So for this mixture, again,
because we want everything to set very quickly today,
we've only added about 3/4 of a cup of water.
I've added in 1/2 of an extra gelatin packet,
and then a full packet of lime Jell-O.
This is not the recommended way to make jello,
but it does work.
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So Nate poured out half of one of the avocados,
just trying to get it from the counter to the fridge.
So I'm going to put these in the fridge
and then pour the jello in.
All right.
We have an avocado,
2 coconuts, and a lime in the fridge.
What's next?
Surgery on a grape.
We're literally trying to hollow out a grape.
The same way that you would
when you're trying to hollow out an egg,
so you can carve it or make it into an ornament.
I shoved a needle all the way through,
and now we're just going to try
and hollow out the insides by blowing the guts out.
That'll be fun.
Yep.
I have a hollow grape.
I'm very proud of myself.
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Here's the thing.
We're not just trying to make
these grapes sat in hollow inside,
we're putting stuff back.
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Little bit of the gelatin leaked on this coconut.
It's a little slimy.
Wait, wait.
No, no, no.
It bounces in your hand.
Kinda does.
You can feel like vibrating,
as though it were a spring or something.
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I'm so thrilled right now.
I've put the lime in the coconut.
I'm proud of you.
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Well, that one doesn't look like a coconut,
but it looks awesome.
There's our lime coconut.
Let's see what I real coconut looks like.
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Okay, that side does.
That side looks great.
Yes.
This side, well, maybe I should have kept
kicking it around in the snow a little bit, but...
It's not bad.
That's really not bad.
That's actually really cool.
You can see that, that edge.
It looks like a coconut.
I want to try this.
The coconut made from jello and snow.
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It's really good.
The avocado.
We've got to look at the inside,
but we are missing a key element.
I think we have a great idea for
how we're going to add that key element in.
Doesn't taste like avocado at all.
World's mintiest avocado.
That's amazing, and it tastes really good.
Should we see how our limes turned out?
Yeah.
Jello segmented lime.
Oh, that's fun.
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Done.
Pina colada flavored energy drink?
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Yes.
A lime slice on a gummy coconut
with a pina colada flavored drink inside.
I've never been happier.
The candy island life, altogether.
Oh that has some real lime in it still.
That's cool.
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Hmm...
Nice and tart.
There.
My wedge has less lime in it.
Well, that's some--
It's tart.
Taste like a lime.
This would be really fun to do with oranges, grapefruit,
like a bigger fruit
that you can carve out the pieces a little bit easier.
Because it'd be a fun snack.
Nate just eating a lime?
I have to go.
Wait, get the grapes.
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Dang it.
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I can't get the edge.
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The stick.
Dang it.
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Okay, but I actually want to know what it taste like now
that we've done surgery on a grape.
Surgery on a grape.
That's really good.
You thought it couldn't be done.
You may have not said it out loud,
but in your head, you thought we couldn't do it,
but we could.
We did.
We might be the first people to hollow out the guts of a grape,
and fill it with grape-filled Jello.
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Thank you, Benjamin Librado.
That was a lot of fun.
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