Best 7 Gumdrop Cake Recipes

GUMDROP CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees (175 degrees C). Grease and flour 10 inch tube pan. Set aside.
• In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, one at a time.
• In a separate bowl, sift dry ingredients together and fold into creamed mixture alternately with water. Coat raisins and gumdrops with flour. Stir flavorings, gumdrops and raisins into creamed mixture.
• Mix well and pour into prepared pan. Bake for 1 1/2 hours.

HOLIDAY GUMDROP CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Grease 2 loaf pans.
• Place raisins into a large saucepan, cover with water, and bring to a boil. Cover and reduce heat to medium; boil until raisins are plump, about 5 minutes. Drain and transfer to a large bowl.
• Stir 1 cup flour into raisins and add gum drops and walnuts; mix to coat ingredients with flour. Beat butter, brown sugar, and eggs together in a separate bowl until creamy; mix in applesauce. Stir remaining 5 cups flour, salt, cinnamon, cloves, and allspice into batter. Dissolve baking soda and hot water in a small bowl and stir into batter. Fold floured raisin mixture into batter. Divide batter between the prepared loaf pans.
• Bake in the preheated oven until golden brown, 2 1/2 hours.

VERY MOIST GUMDROP CAKE

Steps:

• Place raisins in a saucepan, and cover with water. Bring to a boil, and cook for 5 minutes. Drain all water from raisins.
• In a medium bowl, mix 1 cup flour into gumdrops, cherries, nuts, and drained raisins.
• In a large bowl, beat butter or margarine, sugar, and eggs. Mix in applesauce. Stir remaining flour, salt, and cinnamon into creamed mixture. Dissolve soda dissolved in hot water. Mix into batter well. Stir in floured fruit.
• Line an angel food pan with parchment paper, and grease with butter or margarine. Pour batter to within one inch of the top of pan.
• Bake 3 hours at 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). When nearly done, cover top of cake with a piece of tinfoil to prevent top of cake from overcooking.

ORANGE SLICE GUMDROP CAKE

Steps:

• Let butter and eggs come to room temperature.
• Combein gumdrops and 1/2 cup flour.
• Grease and flour 2 9x5-inch loaf pans.
• Lay a strip of parchment paper inside so it covers the two long sides and bottom.
• Set aside.
• In large bowl, beat butter with mixer 30 seconds or until softened.
• Gradually add sugar, beat until combined.
• Add eggs one at a time, beating after each and scraping the bowl frequently.
• Add the 3 cups flour and buttermilk alternately to egg mixture; beat after each addition.
• Fold in dates, coconut and nuts.
• Fold in gumdrops.
• Spread batter evenly into prepared pans.
• Bake at 300°F for about 1 hour and 40 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Meanwhile, make Orange Glaze by stirring together the confectioners' sugar and orange juice until smooth.
• Pour Orange Glaze over the hot cakes.
• Cool in pans on wire racks for 20 minutes.
• Remove from pans; remove parchment paper.
• Cool completely.
• Wrap each cake in plastic wrap.
• Store in refrigerator for up to 4 weeks.
• Serve at room temperature.

MOMMA'S ANSWER TO FRUITCAKE (GUMDROP CAKE)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Dissolve baking soda in water.
• Cream sugars,shortening,eggs salt& soda mix.
• Sift 1 cup of flour over the gumdrop pieces.
• Mix in nuts.
• Add to creamed mix.
• Add flour& mix well.
• Add applesauce& mix well.
• Bake in greased or disposable loaf pans for 1 hour.
• Slice& Serve hot or cold.

GUMDROP CAKE 1975

Steps:

• Chop fruit, gumdrops.
• Yes even the black ones they give an anise flavour.
• Sift flour, baking soda.
• Pour one cup over the chopped gumdrops and raisins.
• Cream crisco, sugar, and egg yolks, well.
• Mix liquid alternating with the dry ingredients.
• Add the gumdrop mixture.
• Beat the egg white until stiff.
• Fold egg whites beaten into the cake batter.
• Line 6 loaf pans with foil.
• Bake in preheated oven 2 1/2 hours- 3 hours at 275 degrees F.
• Remove from oven and let cool.
• Rewrap cooled cakes in the same foil from the pans then double wrap in saran wrap.
• When left for two weeks, foil will come away very easy.
• Note glazed cherries may be used as part of the raisins or gumdrops.
• But a total of 10 pounds fruit should be used.

GUMDROP CAKE

Steps:

• Cream butter and eggs with sugar. Add flour mixed with baking powder and salt, alternately with pineapple and warm milk. Add lemon and vanilla. Dredge gum drops and raisins wirth 1/2 cup flour. Add coconut and mix.
• Bake at 325°F Place a pan of water in oven with loaves for moisture.