DIY Giant Sour Patch Kid in funfoods

Today I'm going to tell you how to make the Giant Sour Patch Kid as part of DIY funfoods. You can do it too, and I'll even tell you how to make the mold. 

So one of the first things we need to make our Giant Sour Patch Kids is a mold. And since I can't just go on Amazon and buy a Giant Sour Patch Kid mold, I have to make my own. So the first thing I did was print out a picture of a Sour Patch Kid, and cut it out just on a piece of paper. I just did the full length of the paper. 

This is going to be our guide. And what I'm going to try is I've done this before with cookie cutters, making my own cookie cutter. And I'm going to see if this works as a mold too. So the first thing I did was I took a cookie sheet, just lined it with some foil. That's simple.

Next, what you're going to need is one of these which is a disposable baking tin, and we're going to cut these up. These are pretty cheap. It's better if we get the longer ones. There are some shorter ones, which I may end up using those. 

We're going to cut strips, and we're going to make them about an inch and a half to two inches thick long-wise. So we're going to cut these up, use some sharp scissors for this and here we go. And be very careful with this, you might want to use gloves because this is very sharp and it will cut you. 

All right, so you should be left with a piece of metal, and you want to make it as straight as possible. We're going to cut out a few more pieces of this because we're going to need a lot. This is going to form around our mold. So a few more pieces for sure at least three more.

Might help to cuddle away the sidepieces first, just to get those out of the way. All right, so we have five pieces actually, which is quite good from one of the disposable pans. 

Now, what we're going to do is take our pieces and join them together long ways to form one long piece. I might just do four of them and then see where it goes from there. One of the things you want to do is take the flattest side, the straightest edge and keep them together, the straightest edge from each one, and make sure that side is even because I didn't cut the exact lengths.

So the top part might be overhanging a little bit, but make sure the bottom is perfect in size. So if you have double-sided tape, this is an excellent time to use it. But I don't, so I'm just going to use one-sided tape and overlap it about an inch or so, and then tape it together.

There you go, so that's one piece. Okay, so I'm going to start with four pieces. If I need the fifth piece, we'll come back to it, but four pieces, it should be more significant than your actual mold that we're trying to mold it to because you're going to be bending it and stuff.

So now we're going to bring in our cookie sheet with our mold around it. So you want to pick an end, I'm going to say a flat end, something that has a long flat surface end. So I'm going to go here, but I'm not going to go all the way up to the armpit, right.

So something, where we can overlap it here in the middle, will be okay. So I'm going to start by like the bottom of his leg. You think you would go all the way up to an armpit, but it'll make it harder to bend.

And like I said, this is not very easy to do, but it's necessary for what we need to do. And it may not look like much right now, but it will when we finish it. Now we need to find a way to either tape it down. I'm afraid if I put tape on there the heat from the liquid is just going to melt the tape.

All right, so now what I've decided to hold this in place was to use a glue gun. And I'm making sure I'm using glue that's non-toxic, make sure you do that as well. And I'm only going to put on the outside anyway, but it's just to hold it down to the foil so that there's no gaps in between the mold we made and the foil.

So we can just start on one end and kind of work our way around and try to keep it in the shape that it's in. You may just go slow, and you might want to hold it until it starts to form. It doesn't take long with the glue gun.

So what we're going to do now is our mold is made, and it's on here good, we're going to make our actual Sour Patch Kid. In a large pot, we're going to add 24 ounces of jello. I'm using lime, you can use any flavor you want, but I thought lime would be refreshing plus I had 24 ounces of it.

So 24 ounces is going to add that in there. And you'll notice some of them are a different color. It's just different types of lime. Next, we're going to add 20 packages of this unflavored gelatin, and each package is a quarter of an ounce. So four of these equal one ounce, so it's four ounces total if you're using it from a different container.

So just add these in, I like to do about four at a time. Now, what we're going to do is add two and a quarter cups of water to it. Now mix it a little bit just to make sure all the ingredients are combined. And we're just going to let it sit for at least five minutes to let that gelatin bloom.

So after our gelatin has bloomed, it's nice and thick, we're going to bring it over the stove and heat it until it becomes a liquid state again. Now turn on your heat, medium, stir. When it's completely liquefied, we're going to turn off the heat and bring it back to our work station. 

All right, so now that it's heated up and in the liquid state, we are going to add some citric acid to it. Now citric acid you can get it in a big container, not that you need this much unless you plan on doing a lot of different recipes. And I'm going to add a fourth of a cup, and you can add a half a cup, it depends on how sour you want it. This is the thing that makes it sour.

So I'm going to put a fourth of a cup of the citric acid and just mix it through until it's well combined. Next, we're going to spray our mold with some non-stick spray. This will help it come out easier. So just spray it.

We're just going to fill our mold with our contents. Not bad, okay, so the mold is working. There's a little spot that is leaking, and a couple spots actually. So I'm going to try to fix that somehow. Maybe if I put a tray of ice underneath of it, that'll help.

Okay, so what I'm doing is just putting this tray of ice or cold blocks underneath of it. What that'll do is help it chill faster. And the faster it chills, the faster it forms. I think what it is the hot glue we used is melting. And I want to stop that process as quick as possible. Let it sit out here for a good five minutes before we put it in the refrigerator.

Now just take this, put this in the refrigerator overnight. So I have my Sour Patch Kid in the refrigerator overnight and let's open it up and see if it is appropriately formed and take it out of its mold.

So I'm just going to move it from the sides a little bit. Okay, good, it's coming out nicely. I'm also going to take a knife and just kind of go in, making sure I get down. You can also just tear off this if you only want to use this mold one time. I'm not sure if I want to use it again, I might. So I want to keep it intact the best I can.

All right, I'm just going to grab one end and try to pull it out the best I can slowly. Now what we're going to do is make the outside, which is all like soury and sugary. So in a small bowl, I have a half a cup of sugar, half a tablespoon of citric acid, and mix.

Now, we're going to coat our Sour Patch Kid with the mixture we just made, take a good handful and then spread it out, get the other side. 

All right, so that is it, that is our Sour Patch Kid or one Giant Sour Patch Kid at that. Now, we're going to do our taste test. I'm going to bite into our Giant Sour Patch Kid here and see how it tastes. 

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And it's a little less firm, but not bad, you can kind of squeeze it and not fall apart. So let's try it out. It's okay, it tastes that sour.