How to Make Gumdrop Cookie Recipe
About Gumdrop Cookies Recipe
Description: This is an old-fashioned Gumdrop Cookie recipe. Your kids will enjoy the gumdrop pieces inside each cookie. Adults enjoy these old item favorites, too. You can make these cookies any day of the year.
While we encourage you to make these delicious cookies any time of the year, it is an absolute “must” to make and eat them on National Gum Drop Day
Yield: 4-6 dozen
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Gumdrop Cookie Ingredients
1 cup Shortening
1 cup Granulated Sugar
2 cups uncooked Oatmeal
1 cup shredded Coconut
1 tsp. Baking Soda
1 cup Brown Sugar
2 cups All-Purpose Flour
2 Eggs, beaten
1/2 tsp. Baking Powder
1 lb. Gumdrops, cut into small pieces and floured
Directions How to Make Gumdrop Cookies
Preheat oven to 350° F.
Lightly grease a cookie sheet.
Cream shortening and sugar until fluffy.
Add eggs.
In a separate bowl, mix together all dry ingredients, except coconut, gumdrops, and oatmeal.
Mix dry ingredients into the batter.
Add coconut, gumdrops, and oatmeal.
Drop a teaspoonful of dough onto greased cookie sheet.
Bake for 10-12 minutes, until the edges of the cookie are brown.
Remove cookies and place them on a wire rack to cool.
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