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    » Home » Recipes » Naturally Sweetened Desserts » Glowing Ghost Gummies

    Glowing Ghost Gummies

    Posted: Oct 22, 2014 · Updated: Oct 26, 2020 by Jenny McGruther · This site earns income from ads, affiliate links, and sponsorships.

    As Halloween rolls around each year, I look for new ways to my son's favorite holiday: homemade costumes and decorations, special treats, and natural and organic candies that we pile into a bucket on our doorstep for any little goblins, witches, and ghouls that might come calling.

    So we make sugar cookies, and honey caramel apples, and pumpkin custard flavored with vanilla bean, and these ghost gummies that glow in the dark

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    What's in the gummies?

    Fairly straightforward and easily accessed ingredients make these Glowing Ghost Gummies particularly easy to make.  And, quite simply, it's nothing more than a combination of gelatin, lime juice, honey and tonic water that come together to make this treat.  Molds give the gummies their ghostly form, and a blacklight allowes them to glow a spooky blue white in a darkened room.

    Gelatin

    Gelatin provides the gummies with their shape, form and unique jiggling texture.  It is also rich in easy-to-assimilate proteins that support digestive health as well as skin health.  You can find good-quality gelatin here.

    Tonic Water

    Tonic water, rich in quinine, gives the gummies their ability to glow under a blacklight.  Quinine, the traditional flavoring for tonic water, glows naturally by means of fluorescence.  That is, its molecular structure allows it to emit light when exposed to the light of a different source.  In this case, it emits blue light when exposed to ultraviolet light.  Pretty wild, isn't it?

    Quinine, which gives tonic water its characteristic bitterness and allows these gummies to glow beneath a blacklight, comes from the cinchona tree which is traditionally referred to as the fever tree.  Quinine has fever-reducing, antimalarial and anti-inflammatory properties.

    Both for cocktails, like gin and tonics, as well as for these gummies, I purchase natural tonic water from Fever Tree (you can find it here).

    Where to Find Molds and a Blacklight

    Lastly, you'll need molds to form the gummies and a blacklight to help them to fluoresce.  Silicon molds make a good choice, and there's a wide variety of shapes.  My son and I chose these Halloween-themed molds which included tombstones, bats, jack-o-lanterns and ghosts.

    Finally, you'll need a blacklight.  Blacklights emit ultraviolet light that allows the gummies to fluoresce, giving off a ghostly pale blue glow.  You can find a blacklight here.

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    Glowing Lemon-Lime Ghost Gummies

    These Lemon-Lime Gummies offer a pleasant acidity and soft sweetness from the honey. The addition of tonic water, rich in quinine, ensures that these spooky gummies glow under a blacklight.
    Prep Time10 mins
    Cook Time10 mins
    Refrigerator4 hrs
    Servings: 12 servings
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    Ingredients

    • ¼ cup gelatin
    • ½ cup lime juice
    • ½ cup honey
    • ½ cup flat tonic water
    • ½ teaspoon lemon extract

    Instructions

    • Warm lime juice and honey together over medium heat until very hot, but not quite boiling.
    • Pour tonic water over the gelatin to allow it to soften for a minute or two.
    • Pour the hot honey-sweetened lime juice, and lemon extract over the gelatin, and whisk it until the gelatin is completely smooth, without lumps. Pour into molds, filling only up to about ¼ inch, and place them in the fridge to set until completely firm, about 2 hours. Once set, pop them out of the molds. Store up to 1 week in an airtight container, at room temperature.
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