Decadent and delicious Gumdrop Cake! Perfect for your next party or holiday gathering!
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 55 minutes
Servings: 12
Calories: 547kcal
Ingredients:
- ▢1 cup butter room temperature
- ▢1 cup white sugar
- ▢4 large eggs room temperature
- ▢1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ▢2 teaspoons almond extract
- ▢2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- ▢2 tablespoons cornstarch
- ▢2 teaspoons baking powder
- ▢1/2 teaspoon salt
- ▢1 cup milk
- ▢2 1/4 cups of gumdrops chopped if large
Cherry Icing Glaze
- ▢1 3/4 cups icing sugar
- ▢1 teaspoon almond extract
- ▢2 teaspoons melted salted butter
- ▢2-3 tablespoons milk add until desired consistency is achieved
Instructions
- Pre-heat your oven to 325 °F
- Beat the butter in a large mixing bowl until smooth.
- Add in the white sugar and beat in completely.
- Add in the eggs, beat until smooth again, then mix in the extracts completely.
- Whisk dry ingredients together in a medium sized bowl.
- Add one third of the dry ingredients into the butter mixture, combine completely.
- Add in one third of the milk, beat in completely.
- Repeat steps until flour and milk are used up, ending on milk.
- Stir in the gum drops.
- Spray a 9 or 10 inch bundt pan with cooking spray.
- Spoon batter into the pan, spreading out evenly.
- Bake in the oven for 65-75 minutes until a cake tester inserted comes out clean.
- Cool completely.
- Whisk together icing ingredients until smooth and the pour over the cake.
- Slice and serve!
Notes
- Bake this low and slow at 325, it’s a pound cake after all! If you bake it hotter it will rise and crack in the middle and the edges will be sunken.
Nutrition
Calories: 547kcal | Carbohydrates: 90g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 18g | Saturated Fat: 11g | Cholesterol: 99mg | Sodium: 284mg | Potassium: 163mg | Sugar: 55g | Vitamin A: 605IU | Calcium: 77mg | Iron: 1.7mg