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I love Myrtle!  What a great job you did Arabella.  Especially as a first effort.  We'll have to have a 'home made' toy section in our shop one day.

Thought you might be interested to know that all four fruit cakes came out fantastically.  I am really happy with the look (and the smell) of them all.  I did cut the end off the long loaf I made for 'home'... far too fresh to eat really, but it was delicious and will improve with keeping.

It's far too hot in Sydney to be making fruit cakes!  The last thing I want is for them to start growing mould as they 'mature' in my cupboard.  Ask UK Chickie and she'll bear me out... my grocery cupboard gets as hot as an oven somedays even though I make sure to leave the door open so the cupboard can breathe.

The cakes have had to be wrapped in cling wrap and stored in my fridge.  If you know me, you'll know that my fridge isn't all that big.  Some of the cakes are going to have to be farmed out for keeping.  I don't want to send my cakes overseas until the weather has cooled either.  One never knows how long they'll get to stand on a dock somewhere.  In this heat, it's not a chance I want to take.

Next step... make some tiny little flowers for the Christening cake.  It won't take long as I don't need many.  I love making fondant flowers!  Always looking for an excuse to practice the art!  The icing has to be almost as fine as a real petal to give me the look I like.  Getting the paste 'just right' in this heat is going to be a challenge.

I'll let you know how it goes.

April Blackbird