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In the meantime, for you cat lovers here is the first chapter of my Sweet Treat Shop Mysteries.
Enjoy!!
SWEET
TREAT SHOP
The
Missing Ingredient
Chapter
One
Sophie rummaged through her grandmothers
recipes. She could still remember making these special cookies with her and it
was the most memorable moments of her young life. And for the most part she
could remember most of the ingredients that went in this delectable cookie. But
something gnawed at the back of her mind. There was something special that went
into these cookies. But what was it?
Something brushed against the bottom of
her bare leg. She looked down and smiled. “Hello Gingersnap. You wouldn’t
happen to know that ingredient grandma put in those cookies do ya?”
He looked up at her with big golden eyes
and let out a little mew. “Didn’t think so.”
Sophie sighed. “Well, I will have to
create my own special ingredient but I sure wish I could remember what that
ingredient was. Gingersnap mewed a little louder this time.
Sophie chuckled. “Talking about cookies
has made you hungry I bet? Let’s go, I shall feed you. Gingersnap raced to the
back kitchen to his bowl even before Sophie left the shop area.
She opened up his favourite can of tuna
cat food. He danced around the bottom of her legs purring as loud as he could
manage. He drove right into face first into the large ceramic bowl. Sophie
shook her head. The bell suddenly rung from the front desk. “Oh must go, customer.”
Gingersnap didn’t pay any attention, he
just continued to enjoy his lunch. Loud laughter erupted from the front desk.
Gingersnap sat up washing his paw keeping an eye out at the front desk to see
what all the noise was about. The noisy one finally left and then Sophie came
back into the back kitchen. “Well that was interesting. That is the new owner
of the garden shop down the street. An odd fellow I would say. He doesn’t appear
to be the garden type. Anyway he bought some cinnamon buns and wanted to say
hi.”
Gingersnap snorted. He wasn’t even in the
room and he didn’t really like him. He hopped onto his cat hammock and laid in
it looking out the window. His ears picked up as he saw the individual crossing
the street. The garden shop was not in that direction. Gingersnap continued to watch
to where he went. He had his bag of buns under his arm. He knocked on a door
that was a back door to a tool shop. The door opened and the man looked both
ways before letting in the garden shop man.
Something was up thought Gingersnap. He
would keep an eye on the situation. But right now was time for a nap. Sophie continued
to look over her recipes and try and see what she could create. She always
liked to take recipes and add or change ingredients in them. When the little
Sweet Treat Shop came up for sale, Sophie couldn’t believe her luck. She had
just graduated from baking school and wanted to have her own shop right away.
There would be hard work involved but that was okay. Sophie was not afraid of
hard work.
She did most of the work at the beginning,
getting up very early to make the fresh sweet buns for the day and her special
breakfast cookies and muffins. She also brought in special coffees and teas to
go with them. That proved to be a hit. Now she was getting orders all the time
and of course she needed staff now. She found some pretty good bakers and front
desk people to run her shop while she took care of the business end. Of course
she still baked and tested recipes. She would never leave her baking skills
behind.
Gingersnap got interrupted by a banging
noise outside. It was across the street. He perked up his ears and took note of
what was happening. The place where the garden shop owner had come out of was
now loading up the back of a van. It didn’t look like tools to Gingersnap. These
were odd looking round boxes. They looked like hat boxes. What would a tool
shop have boxes like that, in pastel shades, no less?
This was worth investigating. Gingersnap
got off of his hammock and went through his cat door. He went up on the back of
an old wicker chair to see them clearer. The tool shop man was always looking
around. That made him look guilty Gingersnap thought. The garden man who was
huffing and puffing got into the van. He was heavy set so he was sweating at whatever
they were loading up.
Gingersnap sniffed the air but could not
smell anything. The van took off and the tool man once again looked around
before retreating into his shop. Gingersnap went back inside to see what Sophie
was doing. She was going over order forms. Gingersnap leaped up onto the desk
to help her. She sighed and petted his orange tabby fur. “This new order to the
garden shop is going to be a bit of a challenge. He wants cookies the shape of
garden tools. These are for his open house he is having. He also wants them out
into bags with his shop stickers on them. Sophie shook her head. Not sure how
James is going to go for all this. He’s pretty inventive but not sure what he
will think of this. I have not found any cookie cutters the shape of garden
tools. Maybe I could convince him to make flower cookies instead?”
Gingersnap huffed and laid across her
order forms and purred. He rather doubted that the garden shop man would care.
With that shady tool shop character across the street, he was more concerned
about other things. He rolled over on his back hinting at a possible belly rub.
He purred even louder when he got rewarded with just that.
“My sweet boy gingy boy, how am I going to
get my orders done?”
Suddenly there was loud noise outside.
They both jumped. Sophie and Gingersnap went to the back door and went out to investigate.
There was smoke coming out of the tool
shop.
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