I woke up this morning to a wonderful thing - the warm, inviting smell of baking. Mum was making her fabulous Christmas cupcakes.

These are actually from a Women's Weekly cookbook, Best Recipes from the Weekly, but don't let that put you off, they are brilliant. It's actually the recipe for Golden Fruit Cake (I'll post the recipe later), which Mum bakes in muffin tins, to give to her friends.


Christmas Cupcakes

Thank goodness, she let us sample a couple of them. And we loved them so much (as we always do), that she relented and let us eat more! She says she'll bake another batch tomorrow. Can't wait!


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