when the #FridayFling prompt is ‘bake’, I can’t not visit my favourite fictional bakery✨ snippet from If I Say No, Love & Alternatives Duology Book 2. Book 1: books2read.com/IISY1

For some, the smell of a bakery is their favourite smell. Not much can beat the homely aroma of bread baking in the oven. Charlotte's Cakes doesn't smell like that. There are no loaves or baguettes or croissants to be seen. Instead, this spacious bubble-gum pink shop boasts the sweet scent of icing sugar, creamy butter, and mouthwatering vanilla. If the smell of bread makes you think of home, of having a family and growing old with your soul mate, then Charlotte Davis's cake shop reminds you of more carefree times from your childhood. Summer holidays spent crunching boiled sweets and wolfing down Mr. Kipling's exceedingly good cakes. Ice pops dyeing your tongue green, red, or blue. Soft-scoop ice cream dribbling down the sides of the water cone.