Holiday Gumdrop Cake recipe

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Ingredients

9 cups raisins
6 cups all-purpose flour, divided
3 pounds gum drops (no black licorice gum drops)
1 cup chopped walnuts
1 ½ cups unsalted butter
3 cups packed brown sugar
6 large eggs
3 cups unsweetened applesauce
1 tablespoon salt
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
2 teaspoons ground cloves
2 teaspoons ground allspice
1 tablespoon baking soda
1 tablespoon hot water

Nutrition Info

766.2 calories
carbohydrate: 154.7 g
cholesterol: 77 mg
fat: 16.6 g
fiber: 3.8 g
protein: 7.4 g
saturatedFat: 8.1 g
servingSize: -
sodium: 497.2 mg
sugar: 111.8 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Grease 2 loaf pans.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. Bake in the preheated oven until golden brown, 2 1/2 hours.

Recipe Yield

2 loaves

Recipe Note

The gumdrop cake has been a holiday tradition in our family for almost 4 generations. The recipe has been adapted and changed over the years;this one is my favorite.

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