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

[libitina]

I voted for the 1 cake per household instead of the set sampler because I get the impression that a large part of it for you is getting to think about the individual person as you pick which fruitcake gets packed up to go somewhere, and this way you still get the creative variety of baking different batches and the care of the individual - and you just cut back on time, materials, and expense.

FWIW - I'd be willing to reimburse on postage, and if you were mailing everyone the same size box, you could get info ahead of time on how much postage would be for every package. And it could be purely voluntary.