Please meet Fruitcake, an Artist Teddy bear from England

Please meet Fruitcake, an Artist Teddy bear from England.   She is very, very soft, and her fur is a brown-tipped cream color.   She has stunning eyes and a cute stitched nose.   She is softly stuffed, so she is very light and weighs under one pound.   She is a bit floppy, but if she stands at her tallest she is 15 inches.   She also wears a felt orange collar.   I don't know who created her, but she is a well-made ted.

I bought Fruitcake from a woman in the UK at an excellent price.   The way her eyes are made with the white felt gives her a very piercing look.   That in combination with her fluffy fur coat sealed the deal for me, and I had to have her.

Fruitcake grew up in a village in the Pennines in the north of England.   Her father was a baker, hence her name.  She helped out at the Figgy Pudding Bakery when she was just a young teddy bear,  carefully placing the pastries in the display and later working the cash register and taking orders for wedding cakes over the phone.   She made her first blueberry pie at the age of ten, offering free samples to the customers. After her parents retired, she and her sisters,  Custard and Scone, took over the baking duties, while her brother, Bakewell, managed the financials for the business.

The Figgy Pudding became so successful under the young bears' management, in ten years there were fifteen such bakeries in Yorkshire alone, and the National Trust was featuring the bears' desserts in their cafes.  Fruitcake opened a school for young bear bakers, and her name became synonymous with traditional English baking.   Custard and Scone published a book of recipes, while Fruitcake styled all the photographs.   Bakewell, always the entrepreneur, developed a line of Figgy Pudding bakeware, which was a big hit on the television shopping channels as well as in their online store.  

Fruitcake still lives in the same village in the Pennines of her childhood.   Now that she's so successful, her envious Teddy bear neighbors suppose she's just lazing around posing in front of her French mirrors all day, but she spends most of her time in the kitchen surrounded by butter, flour, and eggs, creating sweets for her next bakery coming soon to your High Street.