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Cooking with Toddlers: Mini Fruit Gelatin Molds
My daughters and I cooked up these easy toddler-sized fruit gelatin molds the other day — our latest foray into making tasty, summery snacks together without using the oven. This was an attempt to recreate on a smaller scale the bundt-pan-sized fruit gelatin mold that my mom used to make when I was growing up. Her recipe has been lost, sadly, but the premise is simple. Mix fruit juice with gelatin, add colorful fruit pieces, then chill until set. (Recipe and pics of my girls making it together after the jump.)
Mini Fruit Gelatin Molds
While our childhood gelatin was made with cranberry juice, we made our individual fruit molds with white grape juice.
Makes 12
Ingredients
- 3 1/2 cups white grape juice
- 2 envelopes unflavored gelatin
- 1 cup grapes, halved
- 1 cup apricots, quartered
- 1 cup strawberries, hulled and halved
(Note: Feel free to experiment with different fruits and fruit juices.)
Instructions
Pour juice into saucepan. Sprinkle gelatin over and let stand for 10 minutes.Turn heat on low and stir juice and gelatin mixture until the gelatin dissolves.
Pour into individual ramekins, bowls, or use a silicone muffin tin (to make it easy to remove later — learn from my mistake folks).
Add fruit to each ramekin or muffin tin section. Toddlers love to help with this step! And if they put all the fruit into one or two sections, feel free to redistribute somewhat when they are not looking.
Chill in fridge overnight or until gelatin is set.
Loosen the mini gelatin molds with warm water (or just use a knife). Set your plate on top of the mold, holding both together, then turn upside down quickly to remove the mold.
Admire and eat!
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1 Comment
Stacey commented on Aug 16 11 at 8:55 amThis is such a great idea and I was so excited to try it with my children. We made it last night and let it sit overnight. This morning, they’re still not set. I followed the directions correctly. Does gelatin usually take this long to set up?
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