Rose Bliss Cooks up Magic
Take a pinch of magic and add some adventure, and you’re ready to indulge in the third delicious and hilarious story of Rosemary Bliss and her magical family, in the BLISS BAKERY series…Rosemary Bliss has won back her family’s magical cookbook and beaten her evil Aunt Lily, but in doing so she also won fame. In fact, she’s become so famous that she has been kidnapped by the Mostess corporation – run by Mr Butter, who wants her to help improve their cake and snack recipes. Rose IS flattered, but something is not right. And together with an unlikely team of bakers, she needs to come up with a plan to stop Mr Butter and the International Society of the Rolling Pin from taking over the world, one magically-evil cupcake at a time…
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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Childrenâs Books 2015
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Source ISBN: 9780007451784
Ebook Edition © 2015 ISBN: 9780007451791
Version: 2015-05-06
For Katherine Tegen, who makes magic with books
Contents
Prologue: Whatever Will Be, Will Bee
Chapter 1: The Catâs in the Bag
Chapter 2: Making the Mostess of a Bad Situation
Chapter 4: The Moony Pye of Insatiability
Chapter 7: The Bunny and the Hag
Chapter 8: Gorging on Glo-Balls
Chapter 9: Two Brothers, with Sprinkles
Chapter 10: Little House on the Tarmac
Chapter 11: Dinky Doodle Doughnuts of Zombification
Chapter 12: On the Wings of Squirrels
Chapter 13: King Things of Revulsion
Chapter 14: Love Is in the Jars
Chapter 15: A Dinky Bit of All-Consuming Greed
Chapter 16: Skirting the Issue
ROSEMARY BLISSâS DREAMS had come true.
She was the most famous baker in all the world. She was the youngest chef ever to have won Franceâs famed Gala des Gâteaux Grands. She was the twelve-year-old girl whoâd out-baked celebrity TV chef Lily Le Fay and stopped her auntâs nefarious schemes. She was the local kid whoâd saved her hometown and rescued the Bliss familyâs magical Cookery Booke.
So why wasnât she happy?
On the thirteenth morning after returning from Paris, she got up and pulled open the curtains of her bedroom.
Snap. Flash. Click. Click.
That was why.
âLook, up there, itâs Rose!â Click. Flash. Snap. âRose, how do you feel about your victory?â Click. Flash. Flash. Snap. âRose! How does it feel to be the best baker in the world?â Snap. Flash. Click. âAnd at only twelve years old?â Click. Flash. Snap.
Ugh, Rose thought. Theyâre still here. Gone were the soothing sounds of morning, the wind chimes, the rope of the tire swing creaking against the branch of the old oak outside her window. Instead, the new sounds came courtesy of the group of paparazzi that had taken up permanent residence outside the Follow Your Bliss Bakery. Each morning they waited for Rose to open her curtains and then snapped hundreds of pictures, while calling out for a quote about her prodigious victory.
Rose had always harboured a secret curiosity about what fame would feel like, and now she knew. It felt like being a goldfish: hundreds of big googly eyes staring in at you, leaving you nowhere to run and nowhere to hide, except maybe a little plastic castle.
Rose snapped the curtains shut, and wondered if sheâd had enough of baking. It wasnât worth it, not if it meant this.
âI wish I never had to bake again,â Rose said to no one in particular.
A furry grey head, its ears flattened, appeared from a mound of dirty clothes at the foot of her bed. âBe careful what you wish for,â Gus said. âWishes before birthdays have a strange way of coming true.â The Scottish Fold cat raised a paw and began licking carefully between each sheathed claw.
âThatâs just silly,â Rose said. âMy birthday isnât until the end of summer. Anyway, I didnât really mean it.â She scratched his head and he purred. âIâd just like to not have to bake for a little bit, you know?â Sheâd become a baker because she loved her family and her town, and baking was in her blood â but thanks to her victory at the Gala des Gâteaux Grands, everything had been turned upside down.
She knew it had only been a measly two weeks, but the past fourteen days had been the longest of her life. No peace and quiet. No time to enjoy the summer. Baking wasnât fun anymore; it was something she was expected to do â like homework.
And that was no fun at all. As far as Rose was concerned, unless something changed this summer, she was done with baking for good.
Downstairs, inside the kitchen of the Bliss Family Bakery, the situation was no better. Camera flashes burst through the drawn curtains like stuttering flickers of lightning, and the barking of reporters outside the door made it sound like there were a thousand people outside instead of just a few hundred. Why wouldnât they leave her alone?
