I think you sound very generous indeed /g/, and I'm sure Susanne (and her husband) appreciated it.

The cakes sound lovely. I'm an absolute sucker for anything with poppyseeds in it. I may already have mentioned to you about my one trip to Munich, when I walked from one strudel stand to another, buying poppyseed slices. Delicious. I have a wonderful poppyseed cake recipe that I inherited from my mother -- dense and dark and moist, and I can eat practically the whole thing by myself.