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Well before the shoppers hit the streets and Father Christmas' elves dust off their toy-making machines, South Australian woman Faye Taylor is elbow-deep in flour, sugar and sweet sherry. She bakes 500 traditional Christmas cakes to raise money for people in need overseas, something she's been doing for almost two decades.

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00:00Here in Faye Taylor's kitchen you can feel the spirit of Christmas.
00:07They definitely know me as the cake lady.
00:09Baking Christmas cakes for her community in Essays Riverland is an almost 20 year tradition.
00:15Every year I increased my numbers because the orders just kept coming in and in and in and now I sort of think I'm capping it.
00:21With 500 orders she begins in October with a well practiced recipe and dashes of sweet appara.
00:28And every mix of my cake has one of those in it.
00:31That sweet appara from Peter Lehmann's wine in the brossa.
00:34Her baking is so intense she uses an industrial mixer and fills up fridges and eskies before wrapping each cake individually.
00:43People tell me I'm crazy but I don't believe I'm crazy.
00:46She's selling the cakes to raise money for people in need in Africa and Indonesia.
00:50The money that I make all goes back direct to them.
00:54As December nears Faye loads up her car and begins dropping cakes off for families to enjoy on Christmas Day.
01:00When God tells me to stop I'll stop but right now I'm open to keep them going.
01:05Delivered with goodwill and a Merry Christmas.
01:09I'm a happy Christmas.
01:11Thank you all.
01:12I guess you can do a good thing of the business of the movie.
01:13I want to make a decision by my man to make a decision about the Order of the Old man made a decision.
01:14I think you can do a good thing of the decision by the Order of the Match is that we all are ready to find.
01:16You can do a good thing in the order and look at the Order of the Match.
01:18I'm coming back.
01:19I'm happy now to just use my journey to work.
01:21I'm happy you can do one of those in my family.
01:23I'm happy you can do this work that helps me to become the better companies.
01:24I'm happy you can do a good thing over my family.
01:26I'm happy you can do this work that I'm happy for you.
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