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Recipe Gumdrop Fruitcake (Cake)
Home Cooking Recipes
Required Ingredients:
- 1 cup butter
- 2 cups white sugar
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 cups applesauce
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 tablespoon hot water
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 16 ounces gumdrops, no black ones
- 3 cups raisins
- 1 cup chopped pecans
- 1 tablespoon butter
Preparing/Cooking:
- 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.
- 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.
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