Who Are We and Why Are We Here?

Here at TEFC^TM, your host is Christopher Baker.

The name says it all ... I've been a Baker all my life. I've have developed the world's most scrumptious fruitcakes and fruitcake products because I've never liked what's available from institutional bakeries who are into mass production and lowest bottom line.

When you taste one of TEFC's fruitcakes or cookies or muffins or breads, you taste only the best that money can buy. At TEFC I never use that candied, tasteless, almost plastic stuff you find in the grocery or in mass-produced products. I only use real fruit with real flavor. Tart cherries, sun-ripened peaches and apricots, tender apples, light and dark raisins, currants, California dates, Caribbean pineapple, and Florida citrus go into TEFC^TM offerings. When was the last time you sat down to a delicious bowl of citron? Never? Me, neither. I don't use it unless you special order it in your selections and then you'll get an argument. I use only U.S. #1 Fancy & Supreme pecans, hazelnuts, and almonds or macadamias and we toast them first to bring out all their flavor. I grind our own spices from their whole form in small batches so they are always at their peak of flavor intensity. There's no polysorbate or monosodium anything here. Why use synthetic preservatives when honey, molasses, brandy, salt and sugar are natural, tasty ones?

Why do I go to all the trouble? For you! I want you to have the best fruitcake experience of your life. I want you to be able to serve your guests or send your friends and family the finest confections on the planet. I want to make fruitcake a year-round pleasure you won't want to live without.

I've been baking since I was five years old. Now, I bake for you. I unconditionally guarantee your TEFC^TM product will transport you and yours to fruitcake heaven or I'll cheerfully refund your purchase price.