Gumdrop Day is celebrated every year on February 15th. Celebrate this deliciously sweet day by eating these colorful gelatin-based candies or using them to make wonderful gifts and crafts.
Gumdrops are well known for being an important ingredient in gingerbread houses, and they also make great cake and cupcake toppers.
Make a Gumdrop
Think you can’t make your own gumdrops? Think again, it’s not that hard. Take a look at bfeedme.com for a recipe for Orange Gumdrops. You will need vegetable oil, sugar, corn syrup, orange juice, powdered fruit pectin, baking soda, sugar and red food coloring.
Also note that you can make Grape Gumdrops by substituting grape juice for the orange juice and blue food color for the red. Apple-Cherry Gumdrops are made with apple-cherry drink instead of the orange juice and keep the red food color.
Taste of Home also offers a gumdrop recipe. For this recipe you will need sugar, applesauce, red or green gelatin, unflavored gelatin and lemon juice.
Gumdrop Gifts
Gumdrops are available in diverse bright colors, and make nice small sweet gifts when wrapped in a clear cellophane bag tied with a colorful bow. Of course, you can use gumdrops to decorate your baked gifts, including cakes, cupcakes and cookies. Finally, how about making some edible gumdrop crafts to give as a special gift?
Gumdrop Crafts
There are quite a few crafts you can make from gumdrops, especially for the holidays. Of course, they are used to decorate Christmas gingerbread houses. These candies can also be used to make a Gumdrop Christmas Wreath. Take a look at this website for directions.
The Craftelf website has directions for an adorable Gumdrop Pumpkin. All you need are orange slice gumdrops, green gumdrops that look like leaves, aluminum foil, toothpicks and a 4″ Styrofoam ball.
A really cute gumdrop craft to make with your kids is found on education.com. The website gives simple directions on how to create a gumdrop topiary. Make sure you have a large Styrofoam ball, a wooden dowel, green spray paint, a flower pot or vase, moss or shredded paper, floral foam, toothpicks, gumdrops and ribbon.
Gumdrop Day E-Cards
Yes, there are e-cards for every holiday imaginable. 123greetings has several cute gumdrop day e-cards ready to send out to all your family and friends. The AT&T; website also offers a few e-cards that will help you celebrate this sweet holiday.
Most importantly have fun and enjoy all the colorful sweetness!
