Healthy Fruit Jelly Lollies Recipes

FRUIT JELLIES

Steps:

• Place 2/3 cup juice in a small bowl or measuring cup and sprinkle with gelatin. Let sit 5 minutes. Meanwhile, in a medium saucepan, combine remaining 2/3 cup juice and 1 1/2 cups of the sugar. Bring to a boil over medium-high and cook, stirring, until sugar dissolves, 5 minutes. Add preserves and whisk to combine. Return to a boil and cook until thick and syrupy, 2 minutes. Add gelatin mixture and whisk until gelatin dissolves. Pour through a fine-mesh sieve into an 8-inch square baking dish. Refrigerate until set, 3 hours (or up to 2 weeks).
• Place remaining 1 cup sugar in a pie plate or shallow bowl. Cut fruit jelly into 1-inch squares. Toss in sugar to coat just before serving.

HEALTHY FRUIT JELLY LOLLIES

Steps:

• Line a tray with baking paper.
• Simmer the juices and berries until they are reduced by half, then add the sugar and tartaric acid and boil the mixture for 3 minutes more.
• Strain.
• Add a little of the hot juice to the gelatine and stir till it dissolves, then add the mix to the rest of the juice.
• Stir thoroughly for a few minutes to make sure it doesn't separate, then pour it all into the tray.
• Leave the mixture to set- this will take around 30 minutes.
• Now use a knife or kitchen scissors to cut the jelly into squares, diamonds, or snakes.
• Or use cookie cutters to cut out fat jelly babies, jelly bunnies, stars or circles.
• Store the jellies between baking paper in a sealed container in a dry, cool place for a day or two, but not too long- remember, they don't have any preservatives in them.
• Throw them out if they start growing mould or look or smell odd, or start dissolving into mush.

RAINBOW FRUIT LOLLIES

Steps:

• Blitz the mango with ½ banana and 100g yogurt in a blender until smooth. Divide between six ice lolly moulds and insert a stick into each. Hold each stick upright in the mould, and secure on both sides with tape. Freeze for 1 hr until set.
• Repeat with another ½ banana, 100g more yogurt and the kiwi fruit, and pour that over the banana layer. Freeze for another 1 hr until set. Repeat with the raspberries, then the blackberries, freezing each layer before topping with the next. Cover and freeze the lollies overnight. Run under warm water to remove from the moulds. Will keep in the freezer for up to two months.