Intense Fruit Gelées

Like others, I used fruit concentrate. The flavor was good, and these were easy to make and very pretty. But, like others, they melted. So, they would be good to make and serve immediately but that's about it.

I made three different flavors, using frozen cranberry concentrate, mango puree, and blood orange puree. The cranberry didn't come out at all, which may have been my error. They just never set and I ended up with basically a pile of cranberry sauce. The mango and blood orange set fine, but the texture was a little soft and overall they were kind of gross. I am considering trying one last time with cherry concentrate, but so far these are not worth making.

I made my own peach, blackberry and raspberry purees to try 3 different flavors - too expensive to order from 3rd party and "experiment". Agree with others - way too sweet. I followed directions to the tee and used a candy thermometer and once prepared, they melted. I made lots of purée thinking I would use to give as gifts - no gifts, purée will be in smoothies or in trash instead.

Like others, I was disappointed that a cooking magazine would try to get me to buy puree for $25 plus shipping from a 3rd party rather than giving me a recipe to make my own fruit puree. But, I found a recipe by Giada on Food Network's website that makes fruit puree by basically thawing 16 oz. of frozen fruit and pureeing it with 1/2 C simple sugar syrup. I've made these gelees using this puree with strawberries and with peaches so far. It has turned out wonderfully. (So great that we've taken them to 3 holiday parties and given them as gifts.) I'm not sure what others have done wrong, but my 11 year-old daughter even made a batch for her scout leaders all by herself with no problems. We used a candy thermometer to ensure that it gets up to temperature and used liquid Certo. But, this is super quick and easy and has gotten rave reviews from everyone.

I made 3 flavors 2 batches each they ended up in the trash they melted or ran all over after they were packaged. I used the expensive puree because I was giving them as gifts, after reading other reviews I would not do that again. i consider myself as great baker/ cook. But was very disappointed.