Christmas Cakes and Kisses

Chapter 6

Chapter 6

“Mr. West? My name is Hannah Yoder. I’m a student in the culinary program at Zanesville Tech.” She smiled into the phone, trying to stifle the nerves that she felt.

“For heaven’s sake! It’s about time you called.”

Hannah tipped the phone receiver away from her ear and adjusted the volume down. “Pardon, sir?”

“I’ve been waiting forever to hear from someone over there. We need to get started on this cake, ASAP!”

“Baking it?”

“Of course baking it, so we can get the design just right. What did you think?”

“We could do a couple of test cakes, on a smaller scale, I suppose, once we agree on a design but we don’t want to start baking the show cake right now,” she said. “It needs to be intact and edible for the display in December.”

“I don’t care about how it tastes,” West shoute