Gumdrop cake

1 cake

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
2 pounds Gumdrops; cut into small pieces (no black) (4 cups)
1 pounds Orange slices; cut up (2 cups)
1 cup Sugar;
1 cup Butter -=OR=-
1 cup Margarine;
1½ cup Applesauce;
1½ cup Nuts meats;
2 Eggs;
1 teaspoon Cinnamon;
1 teaspoon Cloves;
1 teaspoon Salt;
1 teaspoon Soda; in
1 teaspoon Hot water;
1 pounds Raisins; (2 cups)
2 cups Flour; to mixture
2 cups Flour; extra to dredge raisins;nuts, and gumdrops before adding to mixture. using hands acceptable

Directions

Cut up gumdrops and orange slices. Dredge raisins, nut meats, gumdrops and orange pieces in flour. (Our sister-in-law dredges the night before. She said using hands is acceptable) Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Cream sugar, butter or margarine, together, add applesauce, eggs, and blended well. Mix flour, cinnamon, cloves and salt, add to egg mixture. Add soda and water mixture to the batter. Mix well.

Add gumdrop mixture to cake mixture. Spray with nonstick spray either square cake pan, round cake pan, angle food cake pan or bundt pan (which is the best for us). Our sister-in-law uses little individual loaf pans. She gets about 18 little loaf and 1 large loaf out of 1 batch. Cook for about 1-½ to 2 hours, depending on size of pans.

(You sort of use your nose to judge the cooking time.) Source: Lois O'Brion via Birdie Massey. Brought to you and yours via Nancy O'Brion and her Meal-Master.

Submitted By NANCY O'BRION On 12-16-94

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