The only special equipment you’ll need is silicone gummy bear molds. I spent several weeks figuring out how we can be just like Hans and make our own gummy candies at home, and I discovered that it’s not hard at all. Two years later, he invented Gold-Bears, the gummy candy that would eventually make his company worth billions. Hans Riegel took the first two letters of his first and last name and the first two letters of Bonn, the German city where he founded his candy company in 1920, to create the world-famous acronym: HARIBO.
But it's a little bit of food science that makes this gummy candy hack different than any other. The nearly 100-year-old candy recipe can be easily replicated with Jell-O and a few other ingredients.
