Mary Ellens Gumdrop Cake Recipes

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:

• 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.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 275 degrees F. Grease a Bundt or angel food cake pan and line with 2 layers of waxed paper. If gumdrops are large, cut into pieces. Dissolve the baking soda in the hot water.
• Cream butter and sugar. Add applesauce, then eggs and baking soda.
• Sift 2 cups of the flour with the seasonings. Add to creamed mixture and mix. Sift the other 2 cups of flour over the raisins, gumdrops and nuts. Mix ell so they do not stick together -- especially important if the gumdrops were cut up. Add to creamed mixture. Mix well.
• Pour batter into prepared Bundt or angel food cake pan. Set a cake pan of water on lowest rack of a preheated oven. Bake cake on middle rack for 2 hours or until it tests done, using a toothpick.