Cooking with Cannabis is fun and extremely rewarding, especially for the medical user. There are countless cookbooks out there, but a newer craze that popped up in recent years and has gained huge popularity, is
gummies. Who doesn't like gummy bears and sour gummy worms?
The thing is though, an edibles gummy recipe that both works, and tastes good, is actually difficult to pull off. Most people will try to use oils, concentrates and extracts, but find their gummies either taste bad, or the layers separate.
Here's a recipe that produces potent, top notch quality gummies every time. Enjoy!
*note, this recipe calls for the use of "1 zip" which is an ounce, or 28g of bud. By my maths, that will be around 310mg of cannabis per gummy bear, and if the bud is around 20% THC, that means there is 62mg THC and 248mg mycerne terpenes and other cannabinoids per gummy bear. Nice!
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GUMMIES!
I use alcohol tunicate, as it's truly the best way to infuse cannabis into water based mixes, especially for mixes like gummies and lollipops! Why? cause when you're done, the alcohol is completely burned off, so your gummies taste just like real gummies, without even tasting a hint of cannabis.
Here is my quick recipe... (makes 105 - 1 inch gummies)
Can leave them out, they don't need refrigerating, No-melt gummies...
1 (6oz box) of jello, whatever flavour you like
2 x 7g packs of plain gelatin
1/2 teaspoon citric acid
1/4 teaspoon of cream of tartar
1/3 cup of light corn syrup
1/3 cup of distilled water
5 tablespoons, alcohol tunicate*
1 x 3-4 quart stove-top cooking pan
1 small bowl
1 small whisk
1. Mix all dry ingredients into a small bowl, (flavoured jello, plain gelatin, citric acid, cream of tartar), use a small whisk to mix them all together...
2. place your 3-4 quart stove-top cooking pan on a small burner on your stove. Set it to a medium heat, pour the light corn syrup and water into that pan. Bring to a boil, once it is boiling, pour the alcohol tunicate in. Begin whisking the mixture. Cook the mixture for exactly 4 minutes whilst continually whisking the mix. Now pour in your dry mix, and cook for another exactly 4 minutes whilst continually whisking the mix. Now stop whisking, and let the mix bloom up for 10 seconds, then remove the pan from the burner, and begin whisking the mix again for exactly 2 minutes. Then place the pan back onto the medium heat burner, and let it sit there until to begins blooming upward again. Then remove it from the burner and let it cool slightly to a very warm temp. After, take your whisk one last time and whisk it for 30 seconds, then fill your mold with your gummy mix.
After...
1. Let molds sit out for 1/2 hour, then place in your refrigerator for another 1/2 hour.
2. After, remove gummies from molds and place them upside down on wax paper for 24 hours. Then flip them over and let them sit out right side up for another 24 hours. Then package or jar them up! Freeze for up to a year.
Other Notes....
1. before filling molds, spray molds with cooking spray.
*Alcohol Tunicate... (makes 8 oz of tunicate)
Chop 1 zip of nice buds, or use 1 1/2 zip of finely trimmed trim. On a foil lined cookie sheet, place your chopped bud or finely trimmed trim. Preheat your oven to 245F, and cook your chopped bud or finely trimmed trim for 22 minutes. After, place your decarbed chopped bud or finely trimmed trim into a 1 quart mason jar, Then add 10 ounces of ever clear, either 151 or 195 proof, and place that into your freezer for 1 hour! After, strain mix through 4 layers of cheese cloth, squeeze it out! Then place your alcohol tunicate into the freezer for another 1 hour. Then strain that mix through 2 unbleached coffee filters. Then place your alcohol tunicate into your freezer again until you are ready to use it. An 8 ounce jar of alcohol tunicate can make 1220 - 1240 gummies, if you use 5 tablespoons of alcohol tunicate for each gummy bear mix! These come out containing 250mg to 320mg of cannabis in each gummy, yep they are pretty potent, happy me!