Sunday, May 22

Boiled Fruit Cake

For a friend, who is just a wee bit under the gun!

It's a bit of a long post as it's a how to for Boiled Fruit Cake.


The recipe, well loved and very much used as you can see.

750g mixed dried fruit - you can use any combination, I don't like mixed peel, but my awesome bulk food place, has mixed fruit with or without peel. And we like lots of cherries, so there is 200g of glace cherries in this cake and the rest is mixed fruit, sultanas, currants and raisins. If you like the dried fruit can be soaked for a week or so in rum, but we don't have rum and I'm too impatient to wait that long anyways, makes it an awesome Christmas Cake though.

125g buter I use salted
1 cup of brown sugar
1/2 cup of apple juice, or orange or whatever you have.
2 eggs
1 cup plain flour
1 cup of self raising flour
1 teaspoon of mixed spice.


So pop the butter, sugar and juice in a saucepan.


Then put the dried fruit on top, stir to combine and bring slowly to the boil, to melt the butter. Stir a few times during boiling. Then boil for 3 minutes or so until .....


Your fruit is plump and lucious! Let cool for a bit - you can transfer to another bowl and let it cool right down - but again - IMPATIENT!! - I just let enough heat go out of it to not cook the eggs into scramble.

Then you need to line the tin and as fruit cakes have a longer baking time, you need more protection. So I use 3 layers of baking around the edge and then 4 layer of brown paper and one of baking on the base. I just measure around the tin and then cut into it so it lays flat.


So pop in the mixed spice, eggs and flour and stir. And yes I do it in the saucepan why make more washing up


Into the tin and level the top - and give it a couple of bangs on the bench, especially if you are going to ice it, it gets rid of the bubbles.


Just out of the oven, then I wrap the tin in some tea towels and let it cool over night, you can at this stage douse it with more rum. If you want a really rum soaked cake you can just keep feeding it wrapped in foil for a couple of months.



Cut open and ready to eat, yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!


The slice I ate with a cup of tea at lunch :)


Tuesday, May 17

Uber girly!

Well FB does not like me today and won't post this gorgeous pictures on my wall, it must just be having a hissy fit lol!!

So for Peta - here you go - I hope you like them - I looooooveee them!!!



Close up of the sweet little ladybird.


The back, pistachio Minky, hand appliqued by machine toadstools and yes every dot on the toadstools is stitched one by one.


The front ladybird and sweet little toadstool ribbon and rickrack.


The full front, pale pink, pastel blue and lemon minky. A new twist on my ruched fronts, some gorgeous ribbon and rick rack, and a little ladybug flying across the sky.


This one is soooo sweet, I love it - classic, tasteful, soft and sweet, pale pink minky with a ruched front, and just a touch of ribbon.

Wednesday, May 4

Heaven Sent!

Well I've been decidedly under the weather for the last week, very very tired of it, I can tell you - I don't get sick often but obviously my body had had enough and I went down for the count. I've shared it with my darling, mind you the small ones gave it to me first lol! We also had the littlest cherub screaming in the agony of an ear infection, but we all seem to be on the mend.


Heaven Sent HoneBoy! Fleece Outer

I'm a wee bit behind with customs, but they should still hit your mailboxes in the allotted time. Thank you for everyone patience, it really does make a difference.

You can as always see where your custom is at on the left of screen, they are worked from bottom to top in order of payment.

We've also started on the newsletter subscriber wait list spots, more emails to those ladies will be going out next week.

And last but not least the Heaven Sent nappies - I've just received more gorgeous cuts from the wonderful Chris at Baby Bullfrogs. These will be the last for a few weeks as I catch up on everything else and the HoneyBoy! will be the only ones at the moment as I need to source more white fleece, who would have thunk I would run out (not me if you saw my fabric stash)

Size 3 and pocket testing is well under way and so far the testers are ecstatic. Final testing should be taking place in the near future and I'm hoping to release both come July.


Heaven Sent Auriel - Snow White Minky.