A/N: This is another short little one shot, but I got Mrs Beeton's Christmas book and kind of excited so this nugget happened!
Enjoy!
Mal was pretty damn proud of her gingerbread. Despite the rather nefarious start to her baking career she realised she was actually a dab hand at making sweet treats and she enjoyed her time in the kitchen kneading and shaping and crafting different biscuits and cakes. Even Audrey admitted that her syllabub was uncontested, and her chocolate cake was a sure fire way to perk up Ben's spirits when the kingdom was being particularly trying.
Her Christmas baking was nothing short of amazing. She was particularly proud of her gingerbread figures. It had taken a lot of work on her part, even going so far as to create her own moulds, but she did it and now lined up neatly on their sheets were several figures mimicking her friends and classmates. She had even managed to bake them without them exploding in size which her previous batch had done – the shapeless lumps becoming a biscuit base to her cheesecake. As she added the final touch of icing to the cookie shaped like FG she stepped back and smiled.
Turning up the radio which blasted out Christmas music, Mal finally understood what it was about Christmas that had Evie in a flutter for the last two weeks… something about Christmas, on its own was just magical.