What a totally fantastic looking cake with the wonderful colours of the gumdrops through the moist delicious sponge , a truly delightful looking cake to make for today with is National Gum Drop Day
I wanted to find you a recipe that I thought you may all love to try and I think I have come up with a good one with this recipe
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Gumdrop Cake – a dense buttery pound cake packed with brilliantly colored morsels of gumdrop candy. It’s very popular during the Holidays or as a birthday cake here in Newfoundland
- 1 ½ cups butter
- 2 cups sugar
- 3 eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp finely minced lemon zest (optional)
- 3 cups flour
- 1 ½ tsp baking powder
- ¾ cup undiluted evaporated milk
- 2½ cups baking gums + an additional ¼ cup flour
Five Food Facts about Gumdrops
1. Gumdrops, a fruit or spice flavored sugar coated gelatin candy, usually conical in shape. Other shapes and flavors; Orange slices, Licorice Babies, and Spearmint Leaves.
2. The most popular flavors are cherry, grape, orange, lemon, and spice flavors like clove, cinnamon, mint, and anise(licorice)
3. It is said that Percy Trusdale invented the gumdrop in 1801.
4. Originally, gumdrops were flavored with spices: orange(clove), yellow(allspice), red(cinnamon), green(spearmint), purple(anise), white(wintergreen or peppermint), and black(licorice)
5. The NASA Apollo Command modules were nicknamed “Gumdrops” because of it’s conical shape.
Article Source :foodimentary.com
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