Blood Orange Gumdrops

Special recipe from Super Chunk Sweets and Treats.

Photography By | February 15, 2015

Ingredients

SERVINGS: 36 Pieces
  • 1¾ cups blood orange purée (recipe below)
  • ½ cup applesauce
  • 2½ cups sugar, divided
  • 1 tablespoon powdered apple pectin
  • ¾ cup glucose syrup or corn syrup*
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice
  • Superfine sugar for rolling

Instructions

1. Line a 9- by 4-inch loaf pan with parchment paper and lightly spray with oil.
2. Combine fruit purée and applesauce in a heavy pot. Warm over medium heat,constantly stirring with a heatproof whisk.
3. When purée is warm, add ¼ cup sugar mixed with pectin. Continue whisking. When the purée starts to thicken, whisk in the glucose syrup and the rest of the sugar.
4. Continue whisking until a candy thermometer reads 223° F. It will take some time to come up to that temperature and thicken the purée. You want to keep it at a steady boil but not a rapid boil. If the heat is too high the purée will burn.
5. When the mixture reaches 223°, whisk in the lemon juice and pour into prepared pan. Let it sit overnight to set.
6. Cut into 1 inch cubes, rolling each piece in superfine sugar.

 

 

About this recipe

* I usually use Caullet Glucose Syrup (which is wheat based) and is available from ABC Cake Decorating Supplies. Organic corn syrup from Sprouts is an alternative.

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Ingredients

SERVINGS: 36 Pieces
  • 1¾ cups blood orange purée (recipe below)
  • ½ cup applesauce
  • 2½ cups sugar, divided
  • 1 tablespoon powdered apple pectin
  • ¾ cup glucose syrup or corn syrup*
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice
  • Superfine sugar for rolling