Product Review Monday: Glee Gum Review and GIVEAWAY!! **ENDED**

Glee Gum is best known for creating chewing gum made from all natural ingredients. They also offer kits that allow you to make your own gum and candy! The Make Your Own Chewing Gum, MakeYour Own Chocolate, and Make Your Own Gummies Kits blend simple fun, terrific taste, and hands-on learning for convenient use at home and school. Each kit contains everything needed to produce candy that kids love, and, allows you to educate your children on creating food with raw materials. Who knew candy could be both enjoyable and educational!  

I was provided with the  Make Your Own Gummies Kit to review. Like their other products, the kit contains all natural ingredients (like seaweed!) and is eco-friendly. The kit comes with a story explaining the origins of the ingredients. I was very excited to use this kit with my children. My daughter loves to cook/bake and my son loves science so I figured this would be the perfect blend of the two!

Results:

The directions were fairly easy to follow; however, since the products is made for 8-year-olds and older, I decided to simplify the process a bit. There is a molding starch that can be used to create your own designs (I used the starch to make a donut shape and it worked quite well, but took some patience). For my kids, I decided to use candy molds instead because, well, they have yet to learn patience.

The gummies easily popped out of the mold and held their shape well. It is difficult to make out the details on the photo, but this frog looked really good. After making the gummies, you mix them with a sour sugar topping. I thought these tasted so good! (I love Sour Patch Kids and this was very similar to the taste). My children, however, liked the gummies better without the sour sugar added.

I really liked this product because it allowed us to create an edible science experiment. My kids were very excited to see how these ingredients could be blended together to make a candy.

Pros:
Great customer service and speedy delivery
All natural ingredients
My kids had fun with the process of making the candy
Tasted yummy!

Cons:

The candy does gel fairly quickly, so after heating the ingredients you have to work fast to get the shapes molded
The sour sugar was pretty strong and, although I really loved it, was a bit too strong for the kids (since this is an optional step, you can simply skip it if your kids don't like the sour taste)

Buy it here: You can order Glee Gum products from their website, at retail locations,  and certain products are offered through Amazon.

Win it here: Glee Gum is offering one Cake Mom reader their own Make Your Own Kit! Winner can choose between Make Your Own Gummies, Make Your Own Chocolate and Make Your Own Chewing Gum!

**Please read the rules**

This is open to US residents only. You must complete the mandatory entry before completing optional entries. Each optional entry needs to be added as a separate comment. Comments that do not follow the rules will not count and will be deleted. PLEASE LEAVE ME YOUR EMAIL IN THE COMMENT!

Mandatory Entry:  Check out the Make Your Own Kit options and tell me which one you would choose if you won. Choose carefully, because this will be the one you receive if you win!

Optional entries: Leave an additional comment for each entry. For example, if you blog about this contest, leave 3 separate comments!

1. Follow my blog (publicly)
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4. Blog about this contest (with a link to my blog) and post a link to your blog (3 entries)
5. Follow Cake Mom and Glee Gum on twitter and tweet about this contest (can be done daily). You must place a link to your tweet.
6. Enter another one of my contests. Enter as many as you like, but this method is only worth 1 entry regardless of how many you enter.
7. Buy something from Glee Gum's Website (or a glee gum product from Amazon) between now and the end of this giveaway closing date (10 EXTRA ENTRIES)
8. Become a friend of Glee Gum on Facebook
9. Sign up for the Glee Gum newsletter (Glee Gum coupon included!)

The winner will be selected on 4/27 via random.org and will be emailed.The winner will have 48 hours to respond.

I was provide with the mentioned product. The views expressed here are my own (and my children's). No other compensation was received.