Gumdrop Cake Recipe. Welcome Friends! Welcome back to Sunday morning in the old cook book show today we're going to do another recipe out ofThe Old Cookbook “My Favourite Recipe’ published by the Stayner Sun around 1938. We're going to bake a recipe called a gumdrop cake.Ingredients:500g (1 pound) seedless raisins250 mL (1 cup) white sugar250 mL (1 cup) butter2 eggs250 mL (1 cup) applesauce750 mL (3 cups) flour10 mL (2 tsp) baking powder5 mL (1tsp) salt500g (1 pound) gum drops (cut in small pieces)Method:Preheat oven to 120ºC (250ºF).Place raisins in a pot and cover with water, bring to a boil and boil 5 minutes.Drain and allow to cool to room temp.Cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy.Cream in eggs one at a time.Stir in applesauce and raisins.Mix in 1 cup of the flour.Mix baking powder and salt into remaining flour.Slowly mix remaining flour into the batter.Mix in gumdrops.Bake in a 9x9 cake pan for 2 - 2½ hours.#LeGourmetTV #GlenAndFriendsCooking #OldCookbookShow glen & friends cooking