Gumdrop Cookie Bars

Submitted by Dienia B.

"kossman old cookie recipe bar with orange icing"

 

• Ready In: 52mins
• Ingredients: 12
• Serves: 25

ingredients

• 1 tablespoon butter
• 2 cups brown sugar
• 4 eggs
• 1 tablespoon water
• 2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 1 1⁄2 cups gumdrops
• 2⁄3 cup nuts

• orange icing

• 3 tablespoons orange juice
• 1 teaspoon grated orange rind
• 1 1⁄2 cups powdered sugar

directions

1. cream butter and sugar together. it wont look creamy because of the sugar to butter ratio.
2. beat eggs until light and lemon colored.
3. blend with water into creamed mixture.
4. sift dry ingredients together.
5. stir into sugar mixture.
6. fold in cut up or mini gumdrops and chopped nuts.
7. pour into greased 15x10x1 jelly roll pan. and spread with a spatula
8. bake in moderate oven 350 degrees for 22 minutes.
9. when cooled
10. frost with orange icing.
11. combine all ingredents.
12. beat til smooth.

Reviews

[Karyl Lee]

The directions are clear, although maybe lacking by contemporary terms.<br/>You'll need to have plenty of room in the bowl you beat the eggs in, and the sugar and butter mixture won't look as creamed as you'd expect, since there is so little butter. <br/>The batter won't readily fill that size pan,so you'll need to spread it out with a spatula. It did bake in the time length mentioned, might have been even better at 22 minutes. I waited for it to cool for 10 minutes on a rack before I frosted the tops. Cut it only when quite cool.<br/>I am very happy to have a recipe so similar to what my grandmother made and that was only given to us at Christmas!

 

[SonnyHavens]

I enjoy gumdrops so finding this recipe was exciting. It was my contribution during a holiday baking event. Gumdrops were cut into fourths and we followed Karyl Lee's description. All seven bakers disliked them. Bummer. Maybe only using one or two colors would work better.