Happy birthday Bridget

My brother asked me to make a fruit cake for his wife's birthday and as her birthday is on Boxing day I made it alongside the Christmas cakes. I'd been asked to make this one without any citrus so instead of mixed peel I used dried apricot instead, which worked out really well.

I had a free hand as the only brief I had was 'flowers' and not to make the number too large. Having been on a course on making bluebells and snowdrops I thought I'd give them a go. Not exactly a likely combination in reality they make quite a pretty little posy. Being small they're really fiddly to make and using angelica for the stems instead of wire (I don't think there should be anything on the cake you can't eat) I had to make them thin enough to be able to bend them but not too thin so they didn't break, which was also a challenge.

Flowers for Bridget