How do I make home made bubble gum?!
Answers: Would like to make gum for my kids.
It's really not recommended to make gum at home, though you can buy kits for you and your kids to make it together. I have included a bunch of sites featuring these products. I searched the net, and I found a recipe that I have included.
Before World War II, bubble gum was made from a rubber product called chicle, a latex sap from a tree in South America. Scientists came up with various gum bases that mimick the chicle, but making gum base requires excessively high temperatures and chemicals.
Here is a recipe I did find on the net for making bubble gum:
"How to Make Bubble Gum"
Materials Needed:
one oz. package of bubble gum base
one and a half teaspoon of bubble gum flavor
volumetric measuring cup
two small cookie cutters(3/4 in.)
one and a half tablespoons of corn syrup
one cup of confectioners sugar
microwave safe mixing bowl
wooden mixing spoon
measuring spoons
oven mitt
rolling pin(optional)
wax paper
Instructions
1. First thing's first wash your hands
2. If the corn syrup is not liquified, put the bottle in a pot of hot
water to liquify it.
3. Put one cup of confectioners sugar in the microwave safe mixing
bowl and make a crater in the center.
4. Empty the one oz. package of bubblegum base into the crater and put the bowl in the microwave on medium to medium high for 15 seconds.Wearing a oven mitt carefully remove the container and press against the bubble gum with the wooden spoon. If the bubble gum is soft and mushy, remove it.If not microwave it like before until it's soft and easy to mash with a wooden spoon.
5. When the base is soft, add one and a half tablespoons of liquefied corn syrup and heat again on medium high for another 15 seconds and remove from microwave.
6. With the wooden spoon, mix the bubble gum base, the corn syrup and the sugar until they are about halfway mixed together, then add one half teaspoons of bubble gum flavor and continue mixing until it is blended together.When the mixture has cooled and it gets hard to stir, knead it with your hands. The consistency you should have will be similar to cookie dough. Once you have a soft dough like lump of pink bubble gum place it on a sheet of wax paper dusted with confectioners sugar.
7. Now you are ready to shape the bubble gum. You can flaten it with your hands or with a rolling pin and cut it with a bubble gum cutter
in to the shape you desire.
8. After you have cut the bubble gum let the bubble gum dry for one hour, then lightly dust each piece with confectioner's sugar and store them in a air-tight container. If you want to you can wrap each piece of bubble gum individually in wax paper instead of storing them in container, if you do the gum should stay fresh for to weeks.
9. When you are cleaning the mixing bowl ad the wooden spoon try to wipe off most of the mixture with a paper towel before washing. Then wash them with warm water and soap."
This is from the Girls Start Camp web site, link included below.
that is insane why not buy it it is cheap
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I dont know, but that should be a hoot for the day. I wish I would have thought of something so fun.
What flavors are you going to make, I used to love grape bubble gum balls or the sour apple ones.
just go to ampm, walmart , 7/11, any store in this case and buy a pack, it will be cheaper and easer and not a hassle
You could buy a BUBBLE GUM KIT. Check out htis website!