- Yield: 1 cake
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 45 minutes
- Serving: For Family
Coconut Gumdrop Cake
Hi and welcome to our channel, if you are looking for a delicious quick and easy cake you are in the right place. This coconut gumdrop cake is so delicious and not SWEET! Full of colour and the taste of coconut is over the moon, if you like that will seat back with a cup of tea and look at our 15 minute video on a step by step tutorial of how to make your coconut gumdrop cake.
You can't have a gumdrop cake without BAKING GUMDROPS......they are so tiny and very colourful, they are not the same as the candy gumdrop but if you can't find these will I guess you can use them.
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Please continue on to the ingredients and more amazing steps and pictures on how to make your coconut gumdrop cake. 🙂
Ingredients
- Baking Gumdrops - 1 cup
- Butter - 1/2 cup
- Sugar - 1/2 cup
- Eggs - 3 large
- Almond extract - 1 tsp
- Flour - 3 cups
- Baking powder - 2 tsp
- Unsweetened coconut - 1 cup
- Evaporated Milk - 1 cup, room temp.
- Salt - 1/2 tsp
Instructions
COCONUT GUMDROP CAKE:
- Cream together butter and sugar.
- Add eggs one at a time mix well until light and fluffy.
- Mix in almond extract.
- In another bowl sift or mix together flour and baking powder.
- Folding dry ingredients with creamed mixture, don't over mix, then slowly add room temp milk to your mixture.
- Fold gumdrops that have been rolled in flour to your mixture, add coconut continue mixing until all combined.
Grease one springform pan or two loaf pans, or bunt.
- Bake in a 400º pre-heated oven for 45 minutes to an hour or less, depending on your oven, always check the middle of your cake first with a toothpick before removing it from the oven, if it comes out dry it's done if wet close door and leave for another five minutes or so then check again. Don't over bake your gumdrop cake ,this will make your cake dry.
- Remove cake from oven let set in cake pan for 5 to 10 minutes before removing it from the pan. You may need to run a knife around the sides to remove from pan if stuck.
Allergens
I have lots of delicious cakes on my website for you to check out and make when you have a little time, but I will share more pictures with you.
Look how delicious the batter for this cake is light and fluffy, the gumdrops is colourful and the unsweetened coconut is divine. If you wish to use sweetened coconut you can but it will be sweeter, I will share a few more picture.
Thank you so much for stopping by I hope you have enjoyed our video and recipe and a few beautiful step by step pictures on how to make my coconut gumdrop cake. Years ago I would make this cake at christmas time only but now I will make it for special occasions and just because. You can never have to much cake seating around, maybe you like to make some for company dropping in for tea.
You can icing this one with a butter icing and it will be so lovely if you like to have a birthday cake. Don’t forget to check out our video and leave me a message or a recipe suggestion on a recipe your mom or dad would make years ago. Thank you once again for stopping by from our kitchen to yours have a wonderful day. 🙂 Bonita
