Season’s Schemings by Katie Bailey EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Katie Bailey
- Language: English
- Genre: Holiday Romance
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MADDIE
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July
“This isn’t working.”
A camera rolls closer to me, zooming in on my face as I wipe a smudge
of flour from my cheek with the sleeve of my novelty Christmas sweater. I
flip off the mixer and turn to look at my boyfriend, Adam, who’s standing
next to me at the counter, stirring food coloring into a vat of royal icing.
“Maybe add another drop or two of color?”
I advise as I pick up a
spatula and start scraping batter off the edge of the mixing bowl. The
camera looming ever closer to me is serving as a very clear reminder that
there’s no time to waste—we only have two hours to produce 200 cookies
for the judges, with no less than three different flavors and Christmassy
designs on them. “If we want to do a Santa cookie, the color has got to be
really rich and vivid.”
“I know how to make frosting, Maddie,” Adam retorts, pulling at the
collar of his own itchy holiday sweater, and I hear it immediately: the thinly
disguised contempt in his tone.
He’s been using that tone a lot with me lately.
Because he’s stressed, I reassure myself.
And he really does know how to make frosting… better than me, that’s
for sure. We’re both bakers at heart, but I usually focus on healthy
ingredient substitutes for traditional baked goods, whereas Adam’s the
pastry chef at a high-end restaurant in metro Atlanta. He’s been making
some strides towards opening his own place: a dessert emporium where
he’ll create luxurious confections to cater to the most upper-crust and
refined of sweet-toothed cravings.
It was my idea for us to apply as a couple’s team for the Food
Network’s Behemoth Holiday Baking Bonanza! I thought the television
exposure might do him good. That the publicity might help him get on his
feet. Even if it did mean putting my own budding career on pause for a hot
second. Or more. I’m not sure anyone’s going to want to hire a nutritionist
known for peddling butter, flour and sugar in gargantuan quantities, but I’ll
worry about that later.
I also thought it might be a nice way for us to spend more time together.
Adam’s been hard at work trying to make his business dream a reality, and
we haven’t seen much of each other lately. Which is rather unusual. Adam’s
been in my life almost as long as I can remember—his dad and my stepdad
are criminal defense lawyers at some fancy law office downtown, and when
my Mom married my stepdad, she became friends with Adam’s mom, too.
As a couple, we just made sense. While other high-schoolers spent their
weekends partying and illicitly drinking, Adam and I would make cookies
together. Until Adam graduated a year before me and moved on to culinary
school, creating soufflés and choux pastry and leaving me to lick
snickerdoodle batter from the bowl alone on Friday nights.
But having a dessert emporium is Adam’s dream, and I totally respect
all the work he’s put into it. Including frequent meetings with Elizabeth
Carberry, business advisor extraordinaire.
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