Gummy Bears Ice Cube Tray

My six-year-old wanted to make homemade gummy bears, and we searched quite a while for molds. I wasn't completely sure if these would in fact work since it's supposedly an ice cube tray. Yep, it's silicone and can handle high heats of making candy. The gummy bears turned out well. We also decided to make cookies in them using a vanilla wafers recipe--you can put the silicone mold right in the oven--and they turned out great. It would work for chocolates as well. These do make a BIG gummy bear--they are about 2.25" tall by 1.25" wide (5.6 x 3.2cm). I couldn't find smaller gummy bear molds. Details come out pretty well for both gummy bears and cookies. Non-stick. I haven't tried them for ice cubes.

The little bear paws get stuck when popping out ice cubes, and forget about using is for anything else, like cookies or jello. It's all a big piece-y mess.

Worked well as a form for gummies, but after one or two uses, the plastic looked kind of flaky. Cleaning by hand is a big pain. As an ice tray, it's so flexible that it's hard to get into the freezer without spilling water all over the floor. Too much of a pain.

Great little tray for making gummy bears. No complaints so far. I use it every other week, easy to clean and for the most part easy to remove gummies from the mold.

I assumed these were the size of regular little gummy bears for my gelatin recipe. The tray holds 16 bear shapes and measure 2 in. x 1 1/2 in. and honestly is way too expensive at what I paid. So, if you are looking for little gummy shapes, you will be disappointed. I returned it and got a small bear cookie cutter at hobby lobby for only 1.28 (in their clay baking section). The bear cookie cutter works perfect for my purpose.

After recently embarking on the Autoimmune Protocol lifestyle, I kept stumbling across "gut healing gummy" recipes. As a former gummy bear addict, I could not help but wonder what these gummies were that everyone spoke so highly of much less how they could provide the body anything beyond a decent sugar rush. The premise is simple though as gelatin has numerous healing abilities. (Specifically, it contains glycine and proline, two amino acids that are typically lacking in the standard American diet.) To name a few of the many benefits it can aid in digestion while healing your gut, help joint recovery, improve skin, hair, and nail growth, has been known to help promote better sleep, and provides the body with the building blocks for bones and cartilage. Not bad for a gummy! I do recommend if you are interested in making them that you look into high quality gelatin such as Great Lakes unflavored gelatin which can be found on Amazon as well. (Make sure you go for the red/orange can! The green will not work for this.)Despite being so excited to attempt making them at home I put it off for a few weeks thinking they'd be time consuming or difficult. Turned out to be quite the opposite. After making the first batch of gummies today this ice cube tray worked absolutely perfect for this purpose! Not a single one stuck. No longer do I have to shield my eyes down the high fructose soaked candy aisle - I can make gummies at home with only pure fruit, gelatin, and honey. (Note the visible seeds from blackberries in their bellies.) I'm a fan. My only regret is that I didn't buy more than one tray.

The shape of these is really cute. They are a bit bigger than I wanted as gummy bears are probably less than a fifth of the size of the ones this makes - but its still a cute treat for a child. I also tried making homemade jello in it - it worked but it was harder to get out and keep the shape - definitely best for gummy bears with more gelatin in.

These are HUGE bears and the first picture shows a longer tray with more bear molds. This is a smaller tray with only 8 molds