Methods to Make Candied Grapes

Add slightly taste and selection to your snacking routine with these frozen candied grapes! These are fast & more healthy snacks for after-dinner and even after-school snacks, similar to our mini protein balls, peanut butter oatmeal bars, and peanut butter banana muffins.

The contemporary, juicy grapes coated with the candy sugary topping make this sweet grapes recipe so good.

Right this moment, we’re taking the candy-covered grapes one step additional by making these frozen grapes with jello powder. Belief me – it’s the very best.

Sweet Grapes

Who knew that overlaying grapes with jello powder would make such a scrumptious & refreshing deal with? The mixture of the fruit with the jello powder is ideal for an anytime-of-day, anytime-of-year (scorching days and even chilly days) snack.

Whereas I’ve heard of constructing sweet grapes with Jolly Ranchers, I favor to make them with sugar-free Jello, Stevia, or all-natural sugar for a wholesome snack. Since this snack is completely customizable to your style, you possibly can have candy, bitter, or simply lightly-sweetened frozen grapes. You may even change the colour!

It’s as much as you! These grapes are bursting with taste, and I can’t wait so that you can attempt them!

I really like listening to about weight watcher recipes like these frozen grapes or these skinny weight watcher ice cream sandwiches. With just a few tweaks and changes, they rapidly turn out to be a household favourite— a candy deal with with all the flavour, however not one of the added energy.

You’ll need:

For this frozen grapes recipe, you solely want two issues:

• Two cups of seedless grapes (purple grapes, cotton sweet grapes, or inexperienced grapes – any selection will work)
• Two packages of sugar-free jello

Useful kitchen instruments:

Useful Ideas

• In a Rush?  If you’re in a rush, you possibly can skip the steps under about dipping the grapes one after the other right into a bowl of jello powder. As an alternative, you possibly can dump the powder into a big freezer bag, then toss in your moist grapes. Shake VERY effectively. The one downside is that you should have extra jello clumps on the grapes as a substitute of a pleasant, even coating.
• Freeze in a layer- You’ll want to freeze them in a single layer on a baking sheet to keep away from having them stick collectively in giant frozen clumps.  You may switch them to a freezer bag as soon as they’re fully frozen (like ice cubes).
• Methods to make sugar grapes – Should you don’t need to use jello powder, you can also make sugar grapes! I recommend utilizing the thicker pure sugar as a result of it’s extra coarse in order that the sugar received’t be fully dissolved.
• Skinny vs. Thick – You may determine how a lot of a jello coating you need after which alter from there. If you would like the grapes to have a thick layer of jello, it’s possible you’ll have to re-coat the grapes, whereas if you need a lighter taste, a fast dip within the jello powder can be simply sufficient.
• Customise your flavors- For at this time’s recipe (to get nice footage), I used quite a lot of our favourite flavors like strawberry, sugar-free black cherry, inexperienced apple, and sugar-free lime jello. Sometimes, our favourite recipes are made with black cherry sugar-free jello powder. It makes refreshing, candy, however not overly candy, jello grapes.

Methods to Make Frozen Jello Grapes

1. Take away stems and wash the grapes. I wash my grapes by mixing 1 half vinegar with 3 components water in a big bowl. I allow them to sit for about 5 minutes.
2. Rinse the grapes in a colander. DO NOT dry the grapes.
3. Pour the jello into two separate bowls (one bowl per shade) 
   • Time Saving Tip: If you’re in a rush, see my tip above (below “Useful Ideas“) about dumping the Jello powder into a big freezer bag, tossing in your moist grapes, and shaking.
4. Dip the moist grapes, one after the other, into the Jello powder, rolling them round, so they’re coated completely.    
   • Tip: You’ll most likely need to re-wet those which can be ready to be dipped.  
5. Place the jello-covered grapes in a SINGLE layer & put them within the freezer.
   • Tip: I often put them on wax or parchment paper on a baking dish, then put them into the freezer like that. TIP: Utilizing parchment paper retains the grapes from sticking to the pan. It additionally eliminates the mess as a result of you possibly can throw away the paper within the trash while you’re executed.
6. Retailer within the freezer till able to eat.

How Lengthy Does It Take for Grapes to Freeze?

It takes roughly 4 hours for grapes to freeze fully. Belief me, ready for these candied grapes to freeze is value it!

Our youngsters wish to eat these earlier than they freeze completely, often after 1-2 hours within the freezer.

Nonetheless, you don’t need to allow them to thaw as soon as they’re frozen as a result of they typically turn out to be mushy, and the jello turns into messy (when it melts & stains your fingers!)

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Should you’re like me, you wish to eat frozen treats all yr spherical. Whereas these frozen jello grapes are excellent on a scorching summer time day, I even make them in the course of winter. A deal with is a deal with irrespective of while you make it. 🙂