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Jello Candy Melts are a fun, fruity, and colorful homemade treat made with flavored Jello, sugar, and cream cheese. These easy no-bake candies are perfect for parties, holidays, or edible gifts. Customize them with your favorite Jello flavors for a chewy, eye-catching snack everyone will love!
Jello Candy Melts
It is HOT outside, the kids are home all day on summer vacation, and we were ready to have some fun! These are perfect to make with kids and they taste so yummy! These no-bake treats taste like your favorite Jello flavors and then melt in your mouth.
Whenever we make candy melts (like these Strawberry Cream Candy Melts or these M&M Mints) they don’t last long because we love them so much! They only require a 4 easy to find ingredients and you can make them in a few minutes. We even made a video to show you how easy and fun they are to make.
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That’s all it takes! Don’t they make your mouth water just looking at them? The Jello is a bit tart but the cream cheese gives it a creamy flavor. Combined, it’s heavenly! The colors are so bright, fun, and cheery….
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Jello Candy Melts
Equipment
- Electric Mixer
- Mixing Bowls
- Small bowls
- Spatula
- Spoon for mixing
- Storage container
Ingredients
- 16 oz of powdered sugar
- 8 oz of cream cheese softened to room temperature
- Sugar
- Your favorite flavors of powder Jello
Instructions
- In a mixer, combine the softened cream cheese with the powdered sugar. Scrape the sides of the mixing bowl and mix until fully combined (and not sticky!). Add more powdered sugar if it’s a really hot day and the cream cheese is being temperamental and melting.
- Distribute the mixture evenly into 4 small bowls.
- Add 1 tablespoon of various powdered Jello to each bowl and mix with a spoon.
- Pull off small 1/2 inch pieces of the mixture and roll them into balls.
- Press the balls into a slightly flat shape and then roll it into a bowl of sugar.
- Store in an airtight container and refrigerate in until ready to eat.
- Recipe makes about 30 Jello candy melts.
Definitely needed more icing sugar. Probably added about 1 1/2 cups more and then a tad bit of flour……just so I wasn’t adding even more sweetness. Used one pkg of Jello for the batch. Kids loved them 🙂
These look great. If you just want to make one flavor, will a full box of Jello be enough to make this recipe?
We just made these and we ended up adding an additional cup of powdered sugar since it wasn’t getting non-sticky. That still didn’t do the trick, but we still managed to form them into drops. We made one flavor too, and didn’t use quite a full bag/box of Jello. Super tasty and the kids loved them!