A Dash of Magic
Rosemary Bliss will do anything to get back her family's magical Cookery Booke.
That's why she challenges Aunt Lily to an international baking competition in Paris: If Rose wins, Lily agrees to return the cookery Booke that she stole. If Rose loses... well, the consequences are too ugly to think about.
But Lily isn't playing fair – she's using a magical ingredient to cheat. The only way for Rose to compete is for her to find magical ingredients of her own.
Together with her long-lost grandpa, his sarcastic talking cat, and a turncoat French mouse, Rose and her brothers race around Paris to find essential and elusive magical ingredients that will help her outbake – and outmagic – her conniving aunt.
She has to win or the Bliss Cookery Booke will be lost to her family forever.
Please Note: This book has also been published under the title Sweet.
About the Bliss Bakery Series
Books in series order
- 1.Bliss(2012)
- 2.A Dash of Magic(2013)
- 3.Bite-Sized Magic(2014)
Reading age: 8+ years
This series should be read in order.
It was the summer Rosemary Bliss turned ten that she saw her mother fold a lightning bolt into a bowl of batter and learned – beyond the shadow of a doubt – that her parents made magic in the Bliss bakery.
The Bliss family's secret is the Bliss Cookery Booke – an ancient, leather-bound volume of enchanted recipes like Stone Sleep Snickerdoodles and Singing Gingersnaps. Rose and her siblings are supposed to keep the Cookery Booke under lock and whisk-shaped key while their parents are out of town, but when a mysterious stranger shows up, the Booke's ancient recipes prove too tempting to resist.
Kathryn Littlewood's culinary caper blends rich emotional flavour with truly magical wit, yielding one heaping portion of hilarious family adventure.