You can make chewing gum by purchasing kits that come with everything you need or you can put it all together yourself. Here are the ingredients you will need:
● 1 oz gum base.
● Flavoring, to taste. You can look for flavoring online or directly like cinnamon powder or vanilla extract.
● 1 cup confectioner’s sugar
●1 1/2 tbsp. corn syrup
● (Optional) Food coloring
Now here are the steps:
1. Unfold a piece of waxed paper. Use it to cover a cutting board, dinner plate, or a part of the kitchen table. Place about half of the powdered sugar onto the waxed paper.Create a crater in the pile of sugar.
2. Place the gum pellets into a mixing container, then the corn syrup, food coloring, and flavoring. The pellets need to be melted in order to mix the sugar.
3. Place the gum pellets and corn syrup mixture into a microwave set on high for 10 seconds. Keep zapping it at 10 second intervals, until it’s completely melted.
4. Slowly add the hot mixture to the powdered sugar (in the crater) while mixing with a spoon.Work the gum into the sugar until it is all absorbed, adding more sugar as needed. When it is cool enough to handle, you can knead it like dough. Keep adding sugar and kneading until it doesn’t absorb anymore.
5. Last but not least cut the gum into pieces and wrap them. Congratulations, you made homemade gum!!
Hope this helped for the people who don’t like what they put in the gum at the store.
