My Mom gave me the basic recipe and I went all out with tweaking it. Definitely a big hit with my friends, just trying to see who will just eat it and who will be too grossed out.
Ingredients:
- Orange Sugar Free Jello Mix - 1 package (6oz)
- Unflavored gelatin - 1 package (6oz)
- Boiling water - 2 cups
- Vanilla vodka - 1 cup
- Heavy/Whipping Cream - 3/4 cup
- Food coloring - various
- Slinky/Bendy Straws - 100 or so
- Tall containers
Mix the flavored and unflavored gelatin in a bowl
Add boiling water and stir
After gelatin dissolves, add vodka
Open package of straws and extend all of them
Once mixture stops steaming, mix in cream
Add drops of various food colors until you see a brownish-earthworm-color appear
Put the straws into a container that keeps them packed very tightly, some people use a cardboard milk carton, I personally used an Italian Soda Glass, with the squiggly side facing downward (use rubberbands and/or a foil funnel, whatever you gotta do)
Pour jello mixture into the straws
Let mixture set until firm
Remove worms from straws
- run warm water over the outside
- place on a flat surface and run a rolling pin over
- just grab a straw and squeeze it out with your fingers... maybe or maybe not holding it with your teeth. I'm not about to tell you how to live your life
Nom on the scrap materials
HOT TIP: if you leave these drunken dreamcicle gummie worms sitting in a bowl for a day or two, they'll start to excrete a little liquid. That sounds gross, but what it does is leave this moist sheen, which really adds to the realism of a worm.
It was HILARIOUS seeing which people were like... gummy worms that taste like dreamsicles? YES PLEASE! and 'ew no, that looks slimy!'
Mom gave me this recipe for my usual Halloween gathering, but I kinda feel like this should be year-round.
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