Gwen Genalt woke early. It was Saturday morning and she knew Saturday’s were their busiest days.
Already she could hear Gerry her husband hard at work down stairs getting ready for the day.
Gwen and Gerry ran the Magic Tree Café and their business was thriving.
Gwen looked at the list of orders she had for the day and thought of her job as the best in the world. It gave her great satisfaction to run a café that was so popular.
Gwen had a talent not everyone had. She could cook.
Today she would prepare the usual fare for the café but she knew the extra orders she had before her would round off her day.
Not every one could bake fairy cakes. Many tried but none were as successful as Gwen. By post-breakfast there would be a queue outside the front door of eager patrons waiting for that moment when the steps would light up as the sign the café was open.
She only made one type of fairy cake, a simple plain cake but one that had your taste buds fighting to sample every morsel. She delighted in watching her customers eye the cake in front of them. When mixed with Gerry’s special herbal tea the cake took on an amazing dimension.
Each person who took a cake in their fingers immediately gave over to a force far greater than themselves. Their lips could be seen to quiver in anticipation, inside their mouths their taste buds craned forward in expectation of the forthcoming delights.
As your lips caressed the cake and sunk into the luxurious texture your taste buds began to dance in sheer ecstasy. In your brain fireworks exploded, the sensations experienced were as if the most ultimate sensuousness was happening to every cell in your body. With every mouthful you received the same feelings and people could be seen heads back, eyes rolled to the back of their heads as they tasted over and over the sheer rhapsody of Gwen’s fairy cakes.
She had a rule that the cakes could only be consumed in her café, any attempt to smuggle one out resulted in a not so pleasant sticky substance filling your pocket.
As post-breakfast arrived Gerry called to say the queue was getting long and should we lighten the steps and begin the day.
Gwen looked around and saw the morning supplies were ready, the fairy cakes resplendent upon their serving plates, her special kewburter sandwiches cut and placed temptingly under the front counter. They next to the fairy cakes sold best and could be taken home which most customers did after the delights of the fairy cakes had been savoured.
Gerry had taken to growing kewburters in the garden behind the café; they possessed a quality that made your toes curl and your tongue salivate shamelessly.
On top of that there was her sausage and cabbage bake for which she had seven orders already, which would be made up and delivered during the day. The bake was a simple dish but it was Gwen’s secret magic herbs and spices that set it apart. Though she knew the most secret ingredient was the more than generous amount of turmeric she put in each dish. Added to that was the sausages she purchased from Wooly Worth’s shop and Wooly was always happy to supply Gwen at a generous discount for a weekly supply of the bake.
She had never had a dissatisfied customer for her sausage and cabbage bake in fact it was always the opposite with patrons craving for more.
By days end they had served everyone and sent them away happy, their minds blown into an ecstacorial oblivion, one they basked in for the rest of the day.
Gerry and Gwen sat together in the quiet of the afternoon; the entrance lights now dimmed and rested their tired feet.
It had been another exhausting Saturday, but one they would have no other way.
Written for: https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2015/01/09/fairytale-prompt-42/
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Thank you JoAnn.
Shall we meet for tea and fairy cakes some Saturday afternoon at the magic tree café?
Why not so long as you think you can handle a fairy cake or two.
If they were flourless dark chocolate cakes with whipped cream, I could handle quite a few!
You never know, if you ask graciously Gwen may just deliver a special order your way.
I can be gracious. Does Gwen have email or facebook?
As Gwen and Gerry live in the world of the fairies such trifles as FB and whatever do not exist. All correspondence has to go through me. But as I am now a treasure I think I can be relied on to pass on whatever graciousness you consider is appropriate. I think she would see your request for a chocolate fairy cake as a challenge.
I realize her fairy cakes, as she makes them, are the most scrumptious things in the universe.
I thought with her expertise, perhaps she could create a second cake for chocolate aficionados. But, the queue would no doubt be longer.
How about early November for regular, amazing fairy cakes. Would Gwen be insulted if I brought a cup of coffee. I’m sure her herbal tea is the best in the cosmos, but {long story} I don’t drink herbal tea.
My comment is long enough to be flash fiction!
Well I asked Gwen about the chocolate fairy cake, she looked somewhat taken aback but with the usual twinkle in her eye said she’d see what what she could do. As for the coffee she said if you were a friend of mine she’d and Gerry would turn a blind eye. I may have to get out my thermos for you. Mid November sounds good its lovely and warm at that time of year and even though the queues will be long I do have a permanent table in the cafe so we shouldn’t have too much trouble getting in when we require to do so.
Such a delightful story. I could just taste all the goodies. I would have been first in line. You did an excellent job of getting me involved in your fantasy,\.
Thank you Susan, so glad you could come along in this fairy tale.
A delightful fairytale Michael. Laughed at Wooly Worths Shop, sounds so familiar. I’m up for the fairy cakes any time 😀
Thank you I see I’ve had a couple of requests. Will have to get my appointment book out.
I’ll stand in line 😀
Well I did make mention of a queue.
We must make a date to meet up at the Magic Tree Café for one of these scrumptious fairy cakes!
As you can see from the comments there is a queue but hey suggest a date.
Lets shoot for a mid-summer day in July. 😀
Sounds like an idea. I’ll await your confirmation. I’ll get Gwen to pencil you in.
😉
I’m dying to know what a kewburter is. And I will be in the queue for a fairy cake, for sure, if only I can find the address of the cafe. 🙂
The queue is growing Brenda, well the cafe you see is near to me, so until you make the trip down under the address remains a secret…..thanks for dropping by and have a good day/evening.
I suppose you are back at school now?
My children are back at school. My work is ongoing. We writers don’t really take vacations. 🙂
Oh I see, well this writer is having one in April, Europe here I come.
Holy mackerel! How lucky Europe is! 🙂
Well I’m thinking more in light of how lucky I am, not a long visit but enough I hope to have me return another day.
I want to take my kids in a few years. Pinching pennies to afford it…
Well I have waited a long time to go anywhere so while I am healthy and handsome, apparently, I shall do this and see where it takes me. After being in Japan I have caught the travel bug well and truly but it is as you say a drain on ones finances.
LOL I haven’t been to Europe since we had three kids. One day, I hope to go.