The Creative Way Gordon Ramsay Uses Store-Bought Fruit Snacks

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Welch's Fruit Snacks are a slept on nostalgic favorite. A mix between artificial gummy candy goodness and real fruit, these sweet snacks are perfect for all kinds of scenarios, from school lunches and mid-run pick-me-ups to midnight munchies and TSA-approved airport snackle boxes. Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay not only appreciates the multifunctionality of fruit snacks, but he takes them to a whole new level.

As part of a collaboration with the Welch's brand, Ramsay incorporates two different flavors of the signature fruit snacks in three different ways in his tutti fruity ice cream sandwich recipe shared on TikTok. He starts by making classic sugar cookies, then tops each cookie with whole Welch's Berries 'n Cherries Fruit Snacks before baking. If you haven't had this specific variety in a while, those flavors are exactly what you might imagine: blackberry, blueberry, cherry, strawberry, and raspberry. 

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Once his fruit snack-packed cookies are baked, Ramsay adds chopped pieces of the absolute classic Mixed Fruit flavor (strawberry, white grape raspberry, orange, white grape peach, and Welch's concord grape) into store-bought vanilla ice cream for the filling. As he assembles his sandwiches, he dots the top of each ice cream scoop with a few more Fruit Snacks, then rolls the edge of the entire cookie sandwich in a mix of chopped and whole gluten-free candy pieces. Fruity, chewy, and flavorful, fruit snacks are a fabulous — and, evidently, Gordon Ramsay-approved — way to add a twist on a classic dessert.

Now that Gordon Ramsay has proved fruit snacks aren't just a standalone sweet, there are numerous other ways to incorporate the colorful bite-sized pieces into other treats. Ramsay uses a sugar cookie recipe for his ice cream sandwiches, but you might consider topping peanut butter cookies with the Berries 'n Cherries flavor for a fun, chewy spin on a PB&J. Since Welch's comes out with seasonal shapes around the holidays, you can also pair your favorite cookie recipe with holiday-themed snacks for your next party.

Ramsay combines two classics with mixed fruit snacks and vanilla ice cream, but with all the flavors of both foods available at our fingertips, the possibilities are endless. Try pairing a tart frozen yogurt with Welch's Summer Fruits variety. Watermelon, cantaloupe, blackberry, mango-peach, honeydew, and plum flavors will add sweetness and texture to your sour fro-yo swirl. If you're partial to the Island Fruits variety, try them with a tropical fruit sorbet to complement the flavors of strawberry-banana, tropical punch, pink grapefruit, guava-kiwi, mango, and pomegranate-passionfruit. Last but not least, pair goji berries or shredded coconut with the Superfruit mix on your next açaí bowl. Pomegranate-passionfruit, starfruit-kiwi, dragon fruit-blackberry, açaí-blueberry, and goji-apricot fruit snacks will jazz up your already colorful but underrated breakfast dish.