Café SpriggsChapter 3: Lemon Drizzle Cake
The café they love so much. ~~~
When the coffee shop opened, it was quiet at first as Roach set his exotic cakes out along with the usual crowd-pleasing ones. In the left side of the cabinet, he always put a lemon drizzle, a Victoria sponge and different types of cupcakes for the boring customers, then on the right side, he displayed his experimental cakes for the braver customers. Today of course it was the chocolate beetroot one, which he’d topped with chocolate ganache and sliced, caramelised raspberries. And the avocado lime cheesecake which he’d topped with mango slices.
“Want to try them?” he asked Lucius proudly, cutting a thin slice of each.
“Okay then. But I don’t want to get fatter.” The waiter self-consciously patted his tummy.
“You aren’t fat, stop moaning. Here.”
Lucius chewed for a few moments. “The chocolate one…I didn’t think beetroot would work, but it’s pretty nice.”
Roach beamed. “What about the cheesecake?”
“Erm…it’s very…avocado-ey.”
“It’s meant to be!”
“Yes. Very…unique.”
“Good.” The baker bustled off to sort out the till. It needed careful handling, like all the machines in the café. But the till came first every day. He stood cautiously in front of it, pressing the buttons to start its morning routine, then it beeped and started whirring and clicking in a sinister manner.
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