8 gum drop recipes

Soft gumdrop cookies made with buttermilk and brown sugar. The gumdrops stay chewy while the cookies bake up tender with slightly crisp edges.

No-bake gumdrop peanut popcorn cake: a Bundt-shaped tower of popcorn, peanuts, and rainbow gumdrops bound by melted marshmallows and butter. A retro birthday party showpiece.

Chewy popcorn balls loaded with peanuts and colorful gumdrops, held together with gooey melted marshmallows. A retro party treat.

A playful Hanukkah fruit salad the kids will love: banana halves standing in pineapple rings to look like candles, topped with orange gumdrop flames and green pepper handles. No cooking, just crafting and snacking.

Jack-o'-lantern cookies made by dipping Oreos in orange-tinted cream cheese frosting coating. A fun no-bake Halloween treat kids love to decorate with chocolate icing faces.

A frozen confection filling with a Christmas garden of cherry poinssttias and gumdrop holly atop.

Oversized peanut butter pizza cookies topped with chocolate frosting, cashews, candy pieces, coconut, gumdrops, and a white chocolate drizzle. A fun decorating project for kids.

Halloween spider cake made from two bowl-shaped cakes filled with green Jello, frosted black with licorice legs and gumdrop eyes. Oozes green goop when sliced.