November 24, 2012 Cream Cheese Gumdrop Cake If you follow me on Facebook, you know that I was baking last weekend for the a Spay Day Nova Scotia fundraiser.  When I asked around on social media what people would like to buy at a Christmas bake sale, one of the items mentioned was Gumdrop Cake.  I haven't had it for years, but it does certainly bring back holiday memories and is soooo good, colourful like fruitcake without all the icky stuff. I remember clipping a recipe for Gumdrop Cake out of a Sobeys flyer decades ago and keeping it inside one of my cookbooks, I think it just recently got recycled because I had never made it... so off to the interwebs I went for recipe ideas.  Here is the recipe I ended up making and will be baking again this year... but the next one will be staying in the house. If your candies are big like mine were, cut them in half with clean kitchen scissors so they spread through the cake more evenly. In a stand mixer (or by hand if you are full of super human strength), cream together the butter, cream cheese and sugar... really, you can't do this part too much, the longer the better.  Beat in the eggs, one at a time, as well as the two extracts. Take half a cup of your flour and mix it with the candy, this will prevent them from both sticking together and falling to the