Gumdrop Fruitcake Recipe 45

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.

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.

Steps:

• cream shortening and sugar
• add eggs
• beat
• add applesauce with soda and vanilla mixed in
• mix spices and flour in another bowl
• cut dates chop nuts take out black gumdrop.
• add these to flour mixture as well as raisins
• mix well.
• add to creamed mixture
• pour into wellgreased loaf pans
• bake at 300 degrees for 2 hours
• darlenes recipe says 45 to 60 minutes fin 350 degree oven
• iwould go with lower heat.

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.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F (165°C). Line two 9 x 5-inch loaf pans or a 10-inch tube pan with greased parchment or heavy paper. Sift together the flour, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and salt. Cut the gumdrops in fourths. Fry the pecans in the 1 tablespoon butter or margarine. Mix pecans, raisins, and gumdrops together, and roll in 3/4 cup of flour mixture. In a large bowl, cream together 1 cup butter or margarine and white sugar. Mix in beaten eggs. Mix in the flour and spice mixture alternately with the applesauce. Dissolve soda in hot water, and stir into batter. Stir in the vanilla. Stir in nuts, gumdrops, and raisins. Bake for 2 hours. The baking time for the tube pan should be about 30 to 40 minutes longer. Test about 10 minutes before the longer time. You may not get a clean tester, but you will be able to tell if it is the candy gumdrop or dough. Cool. Wrap in foil.

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.

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Line two 9 x 5 inch loaf pans or a 10 inch tube pan with greased parchment or heavy paper. 2. Sift together the flour, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and salt. 3. Cut the gumdrops in fourths. Fry the pecans in the 1 tablespoon butter or margarine. Mix pecans, raisins, and gumdrops together, and roll in 3/4 cup of flour mixture. 4. In a large bowl, cream together 1 cup butter or margarine and white sugar. Mix in beaten eggs. Mix in the flour and spice mixture alternately with the applesauce. Dissolve soda in hot water, and stir into batter. Stir in the vanilla. Stir in nuts, gumdrops, and raisins. 5. Bake for 2 hours. The baking time for the tube pan should be about 30 to 40 minutes longer. Test about 10 minutes before the longer time. You may not get a clean tester, but you will be able to tell if it is the candy gumdrop or dough. Cool. Wrap in foil.

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.