Best Great Grandmas 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.

GREAT GRANDMA'S GUMDROP CAKE

Steps:

• Boil the raisins for 5 minutes, strain & cool.
• In a large bowl cream butter & sugar. Add well beaten eggs.
• Add 1 cup flour then applesauce & raisins, mix.
• Add the rest of the flour (2 cups), baking powder, salt & gumdrops, mix.
• Bake for 2 1/2 hours @ 300F in pan(s) double lined with foil (I recommend having a pan of water on the bottom shelf of the oven while cooking).
• DO NOT cut for at least 7 - 10 days.

GUM DROP CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Beat butter and sugar together and fluffy. Add eggs and beat well. Combine flour, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
• 2. Reserve 1/4 mix with gum drops and nuts. Stir remainder alternately with creamed butter/sugar mixture. Stir in gum drops and nuts and peels.
• 3. Spread batter in greased and floured tube pan.
• 4. Bake 300 degrees for 1 hour and 30 minutes.
• 5. Remove immediately from pan.....cool and wrap.

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.

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.

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.

EASY GUMDROP CAKE

Steps:

• Dissolve the baking soda in the buttermilk.
• Mix remaining ingredients together well.
• Add baking soda/buttermilk to mixture and mix well.
• Place into two small loaf pans.
• Bake at 250 degrees for 2 1/2 hours.