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Making your own gummies at home can be so easy (and vegan) with the help of agar agar, gelatin’s seaweed sister. Try it out in these simple Orange Creamsicle Vegan Gummies!
save this recipe!We’re ringing in the New Year with oranges here on Live Eat Learn! Is that a thing? Oranges for New Year? Here in Georgia, where I’m visiting my grandpa for the holidays, we ate blackeyed peas and Brussels sprouts to bring luck for the year, but I vote we add some citrus into that lucky mix.
With the holidays in the rear view mirror I’ve been thinking of how we can lighten up our kitchen this year. Last year around this time we cut out everything (okay, not everything, but a whole heck of a lot) with the 21 Day Reset. But this year I’m feeling a bit … less ambitious.
I’m thinking of going towards more homemade versions of things. You know, homemade vegetable stock, get back into making kombucha, and make our own little treats. Case in point, these Orange Creamsicle Gummies.
Orange Creamsicle Vegan Gummies
Ingredients
- 2 cups orange juice, 480 mL
- 1 cup low fat coconut milk, 236 mL
- 2 Tbsp maple syrup, 30 mL
- ½ tsp vanilla extract, 2.5 mL
- 3 Tbsp agar agar
Instructions
- Heat: Combine orange juice, coconut milk, maple syrup, vanilla, and agar agar in a medium saucepan. Heat over medium/high and let simmer for 2 minutes.
- Set: Remove from heat and pour into a rimmed baking sheet or gummy molds, then place in the fridge for at least 30 minutes to set.
Nutrition
Nutrition information calculated by Sarah Bond, degreed nutritionist.
did you make this?Leave a comment below and tag @liveeatlearn on social media! I love seeing what you’ve made!I first published this recipe on Amanda’s Cookin’.
I’m no culinary expert when it comes to the physics as to how things turn out weather its better or worse than the recipe as originally written. But regular grocer’s orange juice seems bland. I wonder if frozen concentrate lightly deluded is a better option.
What do you think.?
And then I have orange extract to give it an even tangier flavor.
Once I can get this agar agar. Is this stuff the key ingredient that hardens it?
I wonder what stores carry it so I don’t have to order online. Trader Joe’s perhaps.
You could certainly use concentrate if you’d like! I think it could be delicious that way 😀 Agar agar is indeed what hardens the gummies. Most larger stores will have it, and otherwise health food stores usually do. Happy cooking!
very nice solid gummy, great detail in molds but not much flavor at all
It smelled amazing while cooking but the finished product has next to no taste.
I have a few questions:
1. Are there extracts that I can substitute for fresh juices in order to maintain a longer shelf-life? Same for the coconut milk (coconut oil maybe?)
I’m honestly not sure on this one, sorry about that LS!