Kefir Gummy Treats

After seeing homemade fruit gummy recipes all over Pinterest for a while, I really wanted to add them to my gluten-free recipe repertoire – after all, a child’s life is not complete without fruit gummy snacks, right? But I never did make any, because a). We don’t buy fruit juice very often, and b). Even if we did, we don’t really want Garrett guzzling it. Fruit juice being full of fructose, it’s kind of like drinking sugar.

Anyway, I was browsing a blog linky one day and ran across this recipe for using kombucha to make gummy snacks.

We aren’t brewing kombucha right now, but we did recently start making water kefir, so after reading the recipe, and comments from various people who’d tried it, I decided to give it a shot with my own modifications. You could use fruit juice instead of keifr or kombucha, and eliminate the honey, but using a fermented, probiotic drink makes these extra awesome – and cuts down on the volume of sugary juice being consumed.

I used unsweetened cranberry juice in my first batch (you know that’s sour!), but with only three Tablespoons of honey, and the kefir which isn’t sweet, Garrett loved them!