What are Gumdrops?

Gumdrops are colored, sugar candies made of gelatin or pectin, giving them their chewing texture. Two basic types are fruit and flavored spices. Many people are used to seeing it during the Christmas holidays because they are commonly used to decorate gingerbread houses. Although they are clearly colored, rubber is usually covered with white sugar crystals, giving them a more subdued color. The matte look of them has made them very popular Christmas candies. Although they are mainly used on gingerbread houses, some bakers chop them to decorate cookies. Several recipes require dripped rubber to add the dough to the cake; This adds a color look if black is omitted because these can turn the dough of gray. Fruit flavorings taste much different from flavored spices. For example, red and green are the most popular Christmas colors, but red fruit gumdrop is likely to taste like cherry, while flavored with red spices usually has cinnamon taste. Green rubber canbe either flavored lime or mint.

Purple Gumdrops are usually either grape or peppermint, while white could be liquorice or clove. Licorice is always black. Orange rubber is orange flavored in fruit type rubber, but could be flavored anise in the type of gumdrop spice. Yellow are either flavored lemons or could taste like a spice.

children tend to like fruit flavored rubber, but often do not care about the spicy ones. Spice candies are often sold as spice drops , and can praise the taste of gingerbread and other roast goods that include spices such as ginger, cinnamon and/walnut. Gumdrops also differs in texture, depending on what they are made of. Those who are made of Arabic rubber have a heavier consistency than those with gelatin.