Healthy Homemade Fruit Snacks — Peach Mango Flavored
These Peach Mango Fruit Snacks are soft and squishy bite-sized treats bursting with tropical mango and peach flavors. You’d never know they’re fat free, sugar free, gluten free, and all natural!
Yup, that means no high-fructose corn syrup, artificial food flavorings, synthetic food dyes or preservatives whatsoever.
These are so good you’ll eat a dozen in a row. Because that’s what I did. And I’ll take a dozen more, thank you very much!
Healthy Peach Mango Fruit Snacks
Ingredients
- 4 packets Peach Mango Lipton Herbal Tea
- 1½ cups Hot Water
- 8 oz Frozen Peach Slices (unsweetened)
- ⅓ cup Lemon Juice
- 60g (6 tbs) Unflavored Gelatin
- ¼ tsp Liquid Stevia Extract
Instructions
- Brew the tea in the hot water for 5 minutes, then remove the tea bags. Press all the liquid out of the tea bags to capture that remaining flavor!
- Add the frozen peaches and lemon juice to a blender and pour in the hot tea. Blend until smooth. Pour the mixture into a small saucepan.
- Sprinkle the gelatin into the saucepan and let it all sit for 5 minutes.
- Place the pan over medium/medium-high heat. Whisk occasionally. When the mixture begins to bubble around the edges of the pan, and when the bubbles return almost immediately after you stop whisking, remove from the heat.
- Whisk in the optional stevia extract.
- Place your gummy bear molds on a cookie sheet. Carefully pour the mixture into the molds (I use a ¼ cup measuring cup). Let cool on the counter for about 1 hour, then place the pan in the fridge. Refrigerate until firm (I leave them overnight).
Jumbo gummy bear-shaped fruit snacks for only 10 calories a piece? I’LL TAKE IT.
These fruit snacks are so good, I was tempted to walk to the fridge every ten minutes to grab a couple to snack on, but I had to save some for the tight-knit Afternoon Tea + Dessert Party I was hosting. I made big pitchers of both Peach Mango and Cinnamon Apple Herbal Teas, plus some Healthy Homemade Peach Mango Fruit Snacks, Raw Red Velvet Fudge, Raw Matcha Green Tea Fudge, Raw Blueberry Coconut Fudge, and DIY Thin Mints, and provided some fresh Honeycrisp Apples.
The bite-sized treats were perfect little party munchers over some good conversation and catching up. It’s been so long since my friends and I had a reunion. We’re all pretty laid back twenty-somethings… we don’t need to go out and party or jump up and down at concerts (although, we do that occasionally). We’re the ones who prefer getting comfy in our pajamas and cooking at home and watching episode after episode of our favorite TV shows..
I won’t lie, I think I ate the majority of the Peach Mango Fruit Snacks at the party. I couldn’t stop. I know I’ll be making this recipe again and again and again. It’s just SO fun and easy… and delicious.
Enjoy! I think you will 😉
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With love and good eats,
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– Jess
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Indulge − no strings attached!
Yay, I love herbal tea! I think I might try this, but with a different flavor. I have a watermelon lime herbal tea, maybe I’ll experiment with that. I don’t have the molds, can I just pour the mixture into a pan and cut into squares?
Anna
P.S. Your party looked fun! Why wasn’t I invited?!
Ooooo watermelon-lime sounds yummy! And yes, you can definitely pour the mixture into a pan cut it into squares… much easier, and still delicious 😉
Thanks for the reply, Jessica! I will experiment with them! They look like perfect study snacks too! 🙂
Gummy bears are SO CUTE! Absolutely love the peach flavor, perfect for summer snacking! 🙂
I just made these!! Obsessed!!!
I cut them into star shapes and divided the batch into 1/3s. Can’t believe they are SO HEALTHY!!!!!!! I have some Strawberry Lemonade ones setting now!!
Thank you so much!! I can’t wait for my Nutrition students to play around with these recipes! And how cute for kids-use letter or number cutters!! And I LOVE that you use the whole fruit in this recipe!
YAYAYAY!! I’m so glad you made the recipe and liked it! Thanks for letting me know how it turned out. I definitely want to make star shaped gummies now 😀
hi! do you store these in the fridge? i am making a big batch for my son and didn’t know if they were ok at room temp and how long they last? thanks!
Yup, you store these in the fridge! These should last around 5 days in the fridge 🙂
I love all your gummy recipes, wondering if you have a recommendation for making these cinnamon flavored? One of my all time favorite bear-shaped snacks are Cinnamon Bears! Not sure how to attempt that using this recipe, cinnamon oil? Cinnamon tea? thanks! love your blog.
I’ve never heard of cinnamon bears before! I really want to know how those taste now! Since I’ve never had it, I’m not really sure what to recommend. I guess you could try applesauce in place of the peach puree, spiced tea instead of the peach mango tea, and 1 tsp of ground cinnamon added to the recipe 🙂
Thank you! I will have to try that and you’ll have to try cinnamon bears, they are spicy/hot sort of like a hot tamale in bear form 🙂
Can I used something other than Stevia? Like maybe honey or agave?
You can use honey or agave instead but I haven’t tried it for this particular recipe. I’d recommend using 1/4-1/3 cup 🙂
Is there something non-citrus I could use for the lemon juice? I would love to make these but my daughter can’t have citrus. Thanks!
The lemon is there to brighten up the overall flavor. You could definitely replace it with more peach puree, but the overall flavor will just be a little more subtle.
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Well you left out the part where you put the two mixtures together. For you that might be understood but for a new cook it is not. So please correct and repost
. I did figure it out.
Are these more of a jello consistency or more like the store bought kind?
so easy to make! our.little people love them!
Hi! I’m soo excited to make these, but I have a mini gummy bear mold with exactly 36 bears on it. Since these are jumbo gummies, I’m guessing the recipe would be a bit too big to all fit in my mold. Do you have a suggested amount I should cut the recipe down to or a way to store part of the batch while the other part of it sets? If not, I can just put part of the recipe in the mold and the rest cut into shapes or squares. 🙂
I would make the recipe as is, and pour the remaining mixture in cupcake molds that you can cut up later!
Otherwise, simply half the recipe 🙂