I'd like to use sugared fruits for my next cake, but have never made
them before. does anyone have any suggestions?
thanks!

I just did a search of the forums for "sugar fruit" and had a lot of responses come up. The following are some of the first ones I opened hopefully they have some information that will help. If not I suggest doing a forum search.

http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-507513-sugar.html+fruit

http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-524143-sugar.html+fruit