Holiday Gumdrop Cake Food

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.

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.

GUMDROP CAKE

Steps:

• Cream butter and shortening together.
• Gradually beat in sugar, 1/2 cup at a time, until light and fluffy.
• Beat in eggs, one at a time.
• Combine flour, baking powder and salt.
• Cut up the gumdrops into the flour mixture and stir to coat them with the flour.
• Add vanilla and lemon extracts to milk.
• Fold dry ingredients into batter alternately with milk mixture.
• (3 dry and 2 milk additions, starting and ending with dry).
• Spoon batter into greased and floured tube pan.
• Bake at 300F for 1 hour and 20 minutes, or until done.

HOLIDAY GUMDROP CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
• Grease and flour Bunt or angle food cake pan.
• Cream butter add eggs and sugar.
• Mix applesauce, soda, nutmeg and cinnamon together.
• Add to butter and egg mixture.
• Add gumdrops, nuts to flour and salt.
• (Mix to dredge).
• Add the flour-salt-gumdrop-nut mixture, mix thoughly.
• Pour into prepared pan and bake 1-1/2 hours.

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.

GUMDROP CAKE

Steps:

• Using a pastry cutter or fork or whatever you''ve got combine the sugars and butter together until they are like crumbs. (You can use all white or all brown sugar if you like.).
• Combine the eggs and vanilla with the sugar mixture.
• Take about 1/4 cup of your flour and coat your gumdrops so they do not sink to the bottom of your cake. Use the remaining flour for the next step.
• Sift the remaining flour,salt,spices,baking soda and baking powder together.
• With a mixer or by hand add your flour mixture and milk to the egg and sugar mixture until well mixed. I let it mix for several minutes with the electric mixer.
• Add your gumdrops to the mixture and combine by hand as the gumdrops tend to get beat up with the electric mixer.
• Add mixture to 2 loaf pans or one bundt pan that has been greased and floured.
• Put in oven preheated to 300F for about 2 hrs.Test with toothpick to see if it is done.(wet toothpick not done, dry done)
• Note: Do not fill your pan more than 3/4 full as these cakes do rise.
• I have found that the gumdrops do not sink in the cake but they don't rise with the cake either. Try saving a few of the gumdrops and putting them on top of the cake and just pushing them in after you have put the batter in the pan.
• Experiment with the flavors. I found some fruit flavored gummies that are excellent in this recipe. I've also seen wine gummies that I plan to try in my next cake.The spices that I listed are what I like. You may not have the same taste so don't be afraid to add more or subtract some. I have made these with out some of the spices listed and they turned out great.
• If you find your cake is getting too dark before your cooking time is up you can cover the top with tinfoil or brown paper for the last 1/2 hour of cooking.
• These cakes freeze well and just seem to get better after sitting well wrapped in a cool pantry for a week or two.
• Enjoy.

SWEET GUMDROP CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300° Dissolve baking soda in 1 tsp hot water.
• Cream butter and sugar in mixing bowl.
• Add applesauce, dissolved baking soda and eggs.
• Add 2 C flour, cinnamon, cloves, salt.
• Mix nuts, raisins and gumdrops in separate bowl.
• Sift remaining 2 C flour over gumdrop mixture then add to the creamed mixture.
• Grease and flour an angel food cake pan.
• Pour batter into pan and bake 2 hours.