The Great Brownie Taste-off: (The Yolanda's Yummery Series, Book 1) by Lisa Maliga

Author:Lisa Maliga
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, chick lit, bakery, brownies, lisa maliga, serial romance, the great brownie tasteoff, yolandas yummery series, yummery

CHAPTER 8

The day before the big event, Yolanda didn't bring in treats to work as she was taking Friday off in order to bake 400 brownies for the Great Brownie Taste-off.

She calculated the number of batches she had to make and before sunrise, she was in the kitchen along with her two kitty cat helpers. Donning her apron, she tied it neatly behind her and felt like it was official: a morning of baking awaited her. It sure beats cleaning out cages and litter boxes, she thought.

After she had mixed all the ingredients together and was about to pour the batter into the pans, Mr. Whisker jumped on the counter within an inch of the mixing bowl and began meowing loudly. He was just below the spice cabinet, reaching up, and clawing at it. Picking him up and returning him to the floor, Yolanda took the hint and opened up the cabinet. "Okay, Mr. Whisker, thank you for reminding me!" She reached inside and carefully pulled the green bottle out. She opened it to add the magical pinch of the mystery ingredient. She mixed the batter once more, then sealed the lid and returned the bottle to the cabinet. Time to bake the first batch of the day.

Twenty-five minutes later, she pulled the pans out of the oven and set them down on the cast iron trivets. The trivets were older than she was as her grandmother had bought them at an antiques shop when vacationing in Berlin back in the 1990s.

The morning was spent baking and it was a task she loved and doing it by herself meant that she was honestly participating in the taste-off. Only her two cat friends were assisting by sleeping on the nearby couch. After the first batch was done, they got bored and retreated into the living room. She scored the brownies before cutting them, and then set out all the lidded plastic containers that she had in the cupboards. The brownies would be transported in them. At the event, they would be transferred to the glass covered pedestal cake stands that her father had made.

Carefully recounting the brownies as she sliced them and put them into the containers, she discovered an extra dozen. In between batches, she breakfasted on a banana and a slice of whole-wheat toast, so she was only mildly hungry as she bit into one of her freshly baked brownies. It was still warm from the oven and intense buttery chocolate hit her taste buds with an explosion of flavors. Not only the complexity of the imported chocolate, yes, that was evident. The overwhelmingly positive reaction had something to do with the secret ingredient that was added just before the batter was poured. A sense of well-being engulfed Yolanda.

At first, it was a decent home baked brownie. But the more she chewed, the textures and flavors flowing in her mouth, the less she wanted to swallow it. She'd heard the term "like a party in my mouth" on numerous cooking shows and always laughed at the saying.

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