Gumdrop cake decorations.

Turns out working with gumdrops is simple… albeit sticky. Very, very sticky.

Supplies You’ll Need

• Assortment of gumdrops (or similar candies such as “spearmint leaves”)
• Rolling Pin
• Sugar
• Assortment of fondant or cookie cutters
  
  
  
  

  Gumdrop leaves rolled out, sugar for coating surface.

  Keep plenty of sugar nearby and sprinkle it on the gumdrops every few passes with the rolling pin. Roll out multiple gumdrops. Once you’ve got them somewhat flattened, you can overlap them, roll them, and join them together. If you end up with a visible seam that you don’t want, simply fold over the flattened gumdrops and re-flatten them.

  Once the gumdrops are flattened to your satisfaction, use cookie or fondant cutters to cut out shapes.
  
  
  

  

  Two-tone gumdrop heart.

  You can even mix gumdrops to get new colors — the leaf shown above is a green, a yellow, and a white gumdrop rolled together, several times.

  And, as the two-tone heart to the left shows, you can meld two (or more) contrasting colored gumdrops together to make cutouts of multiple colors.
  
  

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