Each winter we receive a package on our doorstep…it’s a fun little box of sunshine! My parents spend the winters in sunny Florida…wonderful for them and not so bad for us either since we always have a place to stay! But while we wait for spring break to arrive we get that special treat in the mail…a little early taste of the sunshine state! The special treat I’m talking about is some tiny loaves of carambola bread. What’s carambola you might ask? Well you might recognize it by its more familiar name “starfruit”. That funny little yellow fruit that when sliced looks like tiny stars! Not only is it wonderful to receive the sweet treat but the story behind its special delivery is equally as fun! A friend of my parents has a carambola tree in her back yard. For the last several years it was becoming too much for her to keep up with the prolific production of fruit it would bear! So my parents stepped in, picked it until it was clean…then baked up a storm! There have been so many loaves baked that my parents, their friend, and all the other neighbors just couldn’t eat it all…this is when the special deliveries began! Sometimes, depending on how much fruit was produced, we would also receive more than we could eat…so I gave a couple away. Now I have some friends hooked on the stuff! The best part is that I too get to be a deliverer of some much anticipated “sunshine”! Let me share with you the recipe and a fun & easy way to dress it up as a gift!
