Cornish Sweets and Wedding Treats by Laura Briggs

Author:Laura Briggs
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: holiday romance, cosy romance, cornish romance, valentine romance, feel good romance, cornwall romance, cornish series
Publisher: Laura Briggs

Chapter Twelve

My cottage's kitchen space was tight for Dinah to work in, as proven in the past, but Cliffs House's kitchen was one of those old-fashioned kind built for the days of formal dinners and full staff. Since Michael's prep for the fete had concluded with bakes in the freezer, Dinah had plenty of room to mix as many sponges as she pleased ... now that Mrs. Norris had taken the hint and did not descend to suggest that more tidiness was required with kitchen privileges.

Dinah dished three different sponges from the plates which contained finished bakes, and lined them before me and Kitty at the kitchen table, sticking a spoon in each portion. "Coconut with cherry almond cream, chocolate with spiced hazelnut fig toffee, and lemon with lime vanilla bean custard," she announced.

"Bit exotic," said Kitty, raising one eyebrow.

"Exotic's expected at this point," said Dinah, stoutly. "We're moving into deeper waters." She nudged the cherry almond forward. "This one seems like a good wedding sponge — light, not too sweet in itself, the sweetness of the cherry is the main flavor." She gestured for us to dig in. "Go on now, you two are my laboratory mice. Dig a fork in, please."

I dug mine into the cherry sponge and tasted it. "It's good," I said. "Very summery."

"It's not too heavy on the almond flavoring in the cream, is it?" she asked. She had a pencil at the ready to take notes on three messy recipes that looked more like physics equations at this point in time.

"No, I taste cherry and a hint of something like toasted nuts," I said.

"Hmm." Dinah slipped into thought momentarily.

"This chocolate one's different," said Kitty, who took a second forkful. "A bit more like dark chocolate, Belgian maybe. The filling's decent, too." A third forkful followed.

"It's the dates giving that one extra moisture, that's why it's so rich," explained Dinah. "It's a bit heavy, though, so I hesitate to put it on the short list. I can almost imagine Pierre's face for the cinnamon-spice toffee."

"I think he'd like it," I said, tasting it before Kitty could finish, since it was disappearing at an alarmingly fast rate. "He's not a complete stickler for tradition, he just has to be surprised in the right way."

"Do you want some of this?" Kitty asked me, now that it was down to three bites at most.

"Don't eat simply one," said Dinah, taking it away from her. "Try the others. I don't want your husband finding out I asked you to a taste test and fed you six slices of sponge instead."

"Nathan actually wouldn't mind at this point," I said. "He's just glad to get her to stop moving long enough to eat." Most of his healthful meals grew cold while Kitty focused on a project for the upcoming wedding.

"That's because he doesn't know about the late-night munchies," muttered Kitty. "I'll have a baby with Saul's appetite, probably, the way this one wants crisps with pickle at one in the morning."

I made a slight face.

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