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#71: Sugar and Spice

One of my favorite parts of the holidays is baking cookies. Or, to be more honest, eating cookies — but you can’t have one without the other! From peppermint to gingerbread to iced sugar cookies, there are so many mouth-watering choices, and that’s just in my own culture. The flavors get even more varied and delectable as you head around the world.

But whether you’re a professional pastry chef in real life or someone whose cookies turn out looking more like lumps of coal, in stories our desserts can be whatever we want them to be. So get your imaginations preheating, because this week we’re going to be exploring all the different reasons and flavors that drive people to pick up the mixing bowl.

This week's prompts

Write about a group of people determined to win an award for making the biggest cookie ever.

High School – 62 stories

Write about someone investigating a break-in at a bakery. The only thing missing? A very secret ingredient.

Mystery – 106 stories

Write about two people who run rival bakeries, but fall in love during their town’s annual holiday festival.

Romance – 137 stories

Write about someone trying to recreate a grandparent’s signature baked good from memory.

Kids – 161 stories

Write about someone hosting a cookie exchange as a cover to hide the true reason for inviting one of their guests.

Dark – 141 stories

Stories

“The Mega Cookie Contest” by Roth Sassin (inactive)

Submitted to Contest #71

"Everyone please head to the auditorium for an important announcement at 9:00. Thank you, have a nice day. Also, don't forget to buy merch from the school store." Everyone is whispering about the assembly. Would it be a police officer come to say some rules? Or an early holiday? Or an upgrade to the school? New I-pads or computers? Extra tests? A bake sale? A carnival? None of the teachers know either. When everyone is settled into the auditorium, kindergarteners in the front, 8th grade in the back, the principal walks onto the stage. ...

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“The Sweetlake Incident” by Kendall Defoe

Submitted to Contest #71

The following information has been recorded to provide a detailed record of the incident in the small town of Sweetlake. The reader is cautioned not to attempt such a stunt, whether it is for charity or the desire to appear in a record book. We thank the representatives of the Guinness Book of World Records for deciding not to record any further contests determining the world's largest cookie, although records for pies, cakes, tarts, Nanaimo bars and other treats will continue to be accepted. They felt that the Sweetlake incident is an ex...

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“Sweet and Sour ” by Elizabeth Rogge

Submitted to Contest #71

It’s Monday morning and I’m sipping my coffee when my boss walks into my office. “There’s been a break-in at the Sugar and Spice Bakery,” Roger says. I look up from my computer. “Anything missing?” “Don’t know, yet. Beth and Will discovered the back door was open when they arrived at 5:30 this morning. The police are already there, securing the scene. Get on down there and see what you can find.” I grab my bag with my camera, fingerprinting kit, and other necessary items for an investigation. As I shift gears and head down Main Street I...

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“The hidden feelings” by Oyediran Esther

Submitted to Contest #71

I have always anticipated for this time of the year, "The grand cookie competition of restaurants all over the country". My family has been running "THE MC DONALD'S RESTAURANT" for 20 years before I was born. It has been passed down from generation to generations and now is our turn to make our ancestors proud again. The town annual festival is the time of the year when all restaurants from all over the country come to showcase their special and new delicacies. My mum is the current owner of THE MC DONALD'S RESTAURANT and for years which she...

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“Parading Big Cookies” by John Steckley

Submitted to Contest #71

For the town’s annual Santa Claus parade there was each year a strange new entry in the parade. For many adults and even some kids it was the highlight of the event. What would it be this year? No one but the planner and the maker of the entry knew what weird and wonderful piece would grace the parade in any given year. There has been some big mistakes. The nine cats dressed as reindeer (with tied on antlers, and one with a very shiny nose added) pulling a sleigh around a flatbed trailer came to pretty much everyone’s mind wh...

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“Finding the Never Father Figure” by Kemani Grey

Submitted to Contest #71

Even now, looking through the assortment of baked goods set out across the living room, I breathe in the heavenly smell, its mesmerizing aroma hypnotizing me for a minute. My long flowing burgundy sequin dress flows after me as I fix the roses in the vase below the family portrait. My mother is before the fireplace, her once bright blue eyes now a dull grey, the empty voids staring blankly at the fire. The effects of Alzheimer’s clear on my mother’s features. She would have taken a bite at the chocolate-filled croissants and stuffed a jam ba...

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“Cookie Monster Killers” by Annette Lovewind

Submitted to Contest #71

Warning; Light gore I take the red velvet cookies out of the oven and put them on the counter. I have two other flavors of cookies. My chocolate chip mint cookies and my Oreo cheesecake cookies. The red velvet cookies were the last cookies that I needed to make today. Katie calls me and tells me that she is on the way with her cookies. Soon followed by Lauren and Cheyenne. They all were coming for a cookie exchange, which was a get-together, stuffing ourselves with fats and sweets and drinking ourselves dry. Then they will pro...

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“Cinnamon Cyanide ” by Emma Cooley

Submitted to Contest #71

The joint was already asking to be looted. The door was never locked, the safe was in the damn lobby for fuck’s sake. The only lock in the entire building was on a trapdoor into the cellar. It had been tampered with of course, and the man sent down there to explore hadn’t returned. He radioed in constant chatter, more than his usual nonsense. “Is there something in the air, Charlie?” my partner asked. I inhaled for a good moment to the scent of freshly ground cinnamon. “Cinnamon, it’s a bakery Ryan.” I dismissed, and he raised hi...

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“Spicy and Salty” by Writers Block

Submitted to Contest #71

Jingle Bell Rock played in the background as Veronica was putting the sugar topping on her latest batch of snicker doodles. She slides the loaded cookie sheet into the oven and sets the timer. The door chime alerted as Lillian came back from her lunch break. She clocked in and went over to the sink to wash her hands before starting to prepare her caramel coconut cookie bars. The sugary smell of baked cookies permeated the bake shop. Lillian commented on how good the snicker doodles were coming along. Veronica replied " This is my prized re...

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“Cookie Love” by Lilah Blackburn

Submitted to Contest #71

Hi, I’m Jacob, and this is Operation Cookie Love. It all began on one fine day when I fell in love with a beautiful girl named Emily Cathy Rose, but then again, everyone did. She was the prettiest most magnificent girl in town. We first met when we were little. We were next door neighbors and our moms hung out a lot so we were best friends. Are moms used to plan vacations at the same place at the same time so they could hang out and Emily and I could play together. Then middle school started and it all changed.&...

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“Creation of the Cookie” by L M

Submitted to Contest #71

My friends and I all stood around the kitchen table, eyes wide in astonishment at the amount of ingredients laying on the table, not knowing where to start. Three giant bags of chocolate chips, a baker's bag of flour, carton of eggs, baking soda, heaps of butter, and so on. It cluttered the long counter, leaving no room for bowls or tools. We continued to stare, and I laughed aloud. “So, guys, where do we start?” I asked, turning to my friends, Taylor, Lucas, Noah, and Harper. “I literally have no idea,” Taylor said, her ow...

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“Jadivolett and the Egg Thief” by Michael Boquet

Submitted to Contest #71

It was two days before the Festival of Winter Winds as Jadivolett and Tiego broke camp. The annual festival marked the change in seasons from autumn to winter and was held to honor Olentar the Wind God. The first rays from Ottbof the Sun God crested over the horizon, burning away the morning chill as Tiego packed up the last of their belongings. Jadivolett knelt, the Sun God at her back, and held her holy symbol between her hands. Turning her emerald green eyes to the northwest, she prayed to Olentar. When she was finished, Tiego handed Jadi...

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“Coconut Chocolate Balls” by Estelle Westley

Submitted to Contest #71

Grandma Griffiths was sitting at the kitchen table amidst a hive of activity. "This is going to be a surprise Gran," Said Sue. She was one of the tween twins busy measuring coconut into a cup. "Mum told us how you always made these Coconut Chocolate Balls for the family at Christmas time. She has safely kept the recipe that you gave for the Coconut Balls in her old recipe book and we will follow it to the last detail." "Who still keeps a hand written recipe book?" asked Liza busy opening the tin of condensed milk. "Do you know, Gran...

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“The king and Diwanji.” by Tariq Saeed

Submitted to Contest #71

Long time ago there was a king, He had a very wise Minister,Diwanji.The king on every important occasion, wanted to seek Diwanji’s approval,without Diwanji's approval he didn’t move an inch. "what is your opinion about the horses,? horse merchants offer seems resonable."The king looked towards Diwanji and wanted his advice .All the other ministers were agreed to buy the horses but Diwanji said “My Lord, no doubt that the horses and the offer is reasonable,but I have some reservation!”replied Diwanji. So what shall we do now?”..The ...

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“The best ingredient ” by Sandra Claros

Submitted to Contest #71

We used to have a television always set in the same cooking channel, which was located in the reception of the bakery shop. There used to be another one in the right corner of the opened kitchen, where customers could see the process of baking bread, cakes and all pastry. That sunny day, the old baker decided to turn the t.v. on another channel. - Look at the television ! That is the ad that i was talking to you about. - The contest? - and my boss stopped whipping the cream , to take a deep look at the screen. A close up of a huge wedding ca...

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