Gumdrops are colorful sugar-coated candies made with gelatin or pectin, with fruit or spice flavors. They are commonly used to decorate gingerbread houses during Christmas and can also be added to cake batter or cookies. The colors of gumdrops match their flavors, and they come in different textures depending on the ingredients used.
Colored gummies are sugar-coated candies made with gelatin or pectin, which gives them a gummy texture. The two basic types are flavored with fruit and spices. Many people are used to seeing them during the Christmas holidays, as they are commonly used to decorate gingerbread houses.
These bite-sized candies usually have a broader base that tapers into a cut-out cone shape at the top. Although they are colorful, gumdrops are usually covered in white sugar crystals, which gives them a more subtle color. The frosted look has made them a very popular Christmas candy. Although they are mostly used in gingerbread houses, some bakers cut them to decorate cookies. Some recipes call for the addition of chopped gumdrops to the cake batter; this adds a colorful look as long as the black colored ones are left out, as these can make the batter look grey.
The colors of the gumdrops always match their flavor, but the flavors vary by manufacturer. Fruit-flavored candies taste very different from spice-flavored candies. For example, red and green are the most popular Christmas colors, but a red fruit-flavored gumdrop is likely to taste like cherry, while a red spice-flavored one usually tastes like cinnamon. Green gumdrops can be lime or mint.
Purple gumdrops are usually grapes or peppermint, while the white could be licorice or cloves. Blacks are always licorice. Orange gumdrops are orange flavored in the fruit gumdrop type, but might be anise flavored in the spice gumdrop type. Yellow is lemony or may have a pimento flavor.
Kids tend to like fruity gumdrops, but often don’t care for the spicy ones. Spice-flavored candies are often sold as spice drops and can compliment the taste of gingerbread and other baked goods that include spices such as ginger, cinnamon, and/or nutmeg added. Gumdrops also differ in texture, depending on what they’re made of. Those made with gum arabic have a harder texture than those made with gelatin.
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