hello ! has anyone messed around with a spicy gummy coating yet? looking for a recipe that gives a nice pleasant spice, but doesn’t leave the inside of the packaging wet or sticky.
currently doing DCM sop based pectin gummy’s, so something that would pair well with that. I’ve been on the internet going through recipes but figured someone in here may have already done the trial and error part.
Spice? Like K2? Capsaicin? Cinnamon?
The search bar is helpful by typing in “gummy recipe”. The magic to the texture is the curing before packaging.
no…like tajin or jalapeno, my gummy is perfect im asking if anyone has messed with a spicy coating. i mention which sop im following clearly in post.
Cure longer. Or remake tajin in house without the problem ingredient
Just make up a mixture of sugar with a spice blend that tastes good and then coat your gummies with it. Get in the kitchen and play around brother, this isn’t hard! I can R&D it and then sell you a SOP for a band if you’re into that!
Super hot peppers are easy to grow and often have their own unique flavor. Instead of just spicy, you could infuse with the flavor of specific peppers.
It’s likely the citric acid and/or the salt in the tajin that’s pulling out the moisture. Couple recommendations:
As others have recommended, you might be best off recreating tajin using store bought chili flakes, salt, and maybe some encapsulated citric acid. This will give the flavor without the excessive moisture pulling out bc the citric acid wont be directly in contact with the gummy.
We did a strawberry jalapeno pate de fruit gummy that was a hit
3:1-5:1. Even then, long cure it. I did a few drops of these. They were a hit.
what are these ratios referencing ? in regards to spice ect or?
Ibthink loran oils makes spicynflovorings
parts sugar to parts tajin for the sanding on the outside of the gummies. Mix (for example) 50g sugar with 50g low-sodium tajin. Try some gummies coated in that, if you don’t like, try some with 100g:50g, etc etc. until you arrive at a combination that works (remember to save some to test for sweating, don’t eat them all)
if you’re trying to get the spicy flavor inside the gummies you’ll have to go with a spicy flavored oil like @420guy suggests. Lorann does indeed make several spicy flavorings like jalapeno.
Asorbic acid is less hydroscopic and wont pull as much water out as citric
Its also vitamin c 
Might be worth trying over encapsulated citric
Tbh i use citric in my sour sugar and have never had a problem with it drying my gummies out
Admittely the sour sugar ones do dry in my dry room faster but i havent found they overly dry once removed and packaged
Just my .2 cents on the matter
Great point about the ascorbic acid.
We also sand with citric acid in our sour gummies and don’t have this issue, so I would assume it’s the salt in the full-sodium tajin that’s the culprit.
ok thanks, im doing this today. i noticed the citric acid in the tajin ingredients list and was thinking the larger issue would be moisture being pulled out. any opinions on this? we used ascorbic powder over citric acid in our sour coating to avoid this but with tajin being pre made wasnt sure.
you use citric with a pectin gummy?
thats what we use inplace of citric on our sour gummies and people enjoy it.
The citric acid in tajin is in the form of dehydrated lemon and lime juice… it might have some different properties than food grade citric acid. Like I mentioned above, I think the salt is a bigger issue, but sanding with a ratio of sugar:tajin will lessen the effect
thank you !
You’re welcome. Hope you’ll post about how they come out!