The Great and Terrible Fruitcake Project

[browngirl]

So, the wind is cool in the mornings, the sky clear and blue in a way only seen in the fall. As they have for several years, my thoughts turned to fruitcake.

But this year, I felt a certain... terror. I don't know if I have it in me this year to do the project like I have in previous years, especially around J. and E, but mostly just based on what my available energy currently seems to be. I know every year I talk about scaling it back, but this year I really must or risk promising more than I can accomplish, which would be utterly unacceptable. I could just take the year off, but I do love this project, and I'm afraid a hiatus will turn permanent. So.

For those who haven't seen me descend into fruitcake-related insanity before: I usually offer 4-5 different recipes/flavors of fruitcake (last year's are described here with recipes here), and a box of samples with 6 or 8 assorted bite-size cakelings. A gallery of cakes may be seen here.

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Comments

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

I don't know how you do things, but I find having everything I send out be exactly the same -- any box can go to any recipient -- makes it both less stressful and easier to hand off the mailing part of the job to a helper.

Six minis is a nice generous package...but I think most of your giftees would be thrilled with four, if that bit of scaling back also helped.

[guiltyred.livejournal.com]

I think most of your giftees would be thrilled with four

I agree with this - four stress-free happy cakes!

[dulcinbradbury.livejournal.com]

Same here. :)