"Here it is Branch, on Saturday, it will be your first ever Castle City Cake Jamboree!" Poppy squealed. "A celebration for all things cake-themed like abstract cake art, the cake-tanical gardens, and the frosting zoo!"
"Okay, but what about the water slide? That's not cake-related." Branch said with a sarcastic tone as he looked at the book.
"Oh no…." Poppy smirked. "But we also have the Castle City Desert Competition and we signed up for the competition."
'Wow, are you gonna make something that Ms. Dahlia made once?" Branch asked.
"Yeah, I'm making her special Fairy Sparkle Melon Marzipan cake as an entry for the contest!" Poppy squealed.
"Oh my guh! I can't believe this is happening! This is Terrible!" Smidge panicked.
"Smidge, are you okay?" Poppy asked.
"No I'm not." She answered. "Nobody is serving Sparkle Melon Frosting and it was my favorite."
"Uh oh! Sorry Smidge, our company isn't making zhe Sparkle Melon frosting anymore." A muscular, Norwegian sprite with blond hair, green eyes, thick eyebrows and a mustache arrived. He is wearing a light purple shirt and white overalls with boots. He also has purple Arctic moth wings.
"OH MY GUH!" Smidge gasped.
"Wait, what?! Why did they stop making Sparkle Melon" Poppy gasped.
When they came to Sky Toronto's factory, Sky explained the situation. Rose tagged along so that she can help them find new flavors.
"Because it's not popular and it's hard to produce." He said. "We provide over 6,000 flavors of frosting, with Sparkle Melon being the most demanding for my staff."
"I researched that Sparkle Melon only grows in Bummer Territory but I saved a few Sparkle Melon seeds in my pocket." Rose said "It will take mud and icky stuff for this to grow like Ambrosia but Sparkle Melon takes longer to grow."
"Nice brains you got there elfie but we're done here." Sky said blandly, thus ending their stay in the factory. Back in Pop Village Apartments, Rose, Smidge, and Poppy are asking Branch for help in making new flavors for the cake.
"I had these fruits sent from my family and I can offer them for you to try to make a new flavor." Rose said. "I got star apples, custard apples, mangoes, naseberries, java plums, papayas, jackfruits, and other fruits you want to try."
"Oh, ok." Poppy nodded.
"Can my mamey fruit be joined in?" Branch asked. "I bought these from a Mexican supermarket, Calaca Bodega, because it reminded me of my family. Although, the custard apples and the soursops are familiar to the both of us."
"Sure, what else do we have?" Rose asked him.
"I have loquats, pomegranates, and prickly pears." He said.
"I got some fluttercorn, ambrosia flowers, dirigible plums, crazyberries, boom berries, buttercup milk, fairyberries, and other magical fruits we can experiment with." Rose added.
"Great, now we have both common fruits and exotic fruits, we just have to make the frosting ourselves." Poppy said.
The four started to get to work. They brought all the fruits to Sweet Pop and started experimenting. Some of the results have magic side effects like gaining muscles, causing spots or checkers to appear on their wings, explosions, flooding, corrosion, or while others taste either bland or bad.
Ooh
Keep Trying (Keep Trying)
And Eventually I Know We'll Get It Right
(All Right)
Ooh
It's Fine (It's Fine, Guys)
Yeah, We'll Make It As Long As We Are Side By Side
(You And You And Me!)
And I Know It Can Be Hard
When It's Not Going How You Designed
But We Keep Going, And Going, And Going, Singing
Ooh (Ooh)
Keep Trying (Keep On Trying)
And Eventually I Know We'll Make It Right
(We Gonna Get It Right!)
Go, Go Crazy
We Ain't Stopping Until We Get It
There's No Maybe
Because We Know Just Where We Headed
And When We Winning, Winning
You Know It Feels So Right
From The Beginning
We Keep Our Eyes On The Prize
Go Crazy
We Ain't Stopping Until We Get It Right
After a lot of experimenting, they almost perfected it, a mixture of dirigible plums, flavor berries, jollyberries, buttercup milk, and pomegranates.
"Alright Smidge, this is our last try, we used up one-half of the ingredients." Poppy said.
Smidge tried the flavor but she said. "Still not right."
Branch tasted it but he noticed something. "We're close, I think I know what this means."
They came to a forest of pink trees with mushroom-like leaves. Poppy and Smidge were unsure about what Branch showed them.
"Gigglefruit!" Branch said as he showed them the trees.
"Uh, Branch." Poppy said. "I don't see any fruit."
"I read that Gigglefruits are fruits that can only be harvested if one makes them laugh and the fruits fall." Rose said.
"Why did the tree get in trouble? Cause it was being knotty!" Branch joked as he tried to make the trees laugh but it didn't happen.
"I don't get it, that usually brings the house down." He was confused.
"That joke is lame. I dunno why we have to depend on them if you wanna make these trees laugh." Rose complained and flew off but she didn't see where she was flying to. She crashed on another giggle tree and knocked on the ground. The giggle tree laughed at Rose's crash landing, and many gigglefruits fell from them. Poppy, Branch, Rose, and Smidge gathered all the gigglefruits and went back to Sweet Pop, where they added the last ingredient into their flavor. Branch squeezed the gigglefruit into the flavor while Poppy mixed it. When Smidge tasted it, she was amazed by its taste.
"Wow, this is the best flavor we ever made!" Smidge cried.
As the four started preparing to bake a cake for their entry, they didn't notice that Brandy, Tequila, Cider, Whiskey, Vodka, and Soju were spying on them.
"Those flies have made something that we cannot do! UGH!" Brandy cried.
"Yeah, they beat us a lot of times." Whiskey said.
"And that purple fruit they're using is going to earn them more customers!" Tequila added.
"Wait, did you say the purple fruit?" She asked Tequila.
"Uh, yeah?" Tequila answered.
"We need to get that fruit they are using in their frosting and make ours better than theirs!" Brandy snickered.
"OOOO! That is a great idea." Cider snickered.
They sneaked into the pantry and stole thirteen gigglefruits. They tried to make their own entry but they sped up through the recipe, they used salt instead of sugar, and they mixed the ingredients in baking pans instead. When the Castle City Cake Jamboree came, everybody was having a great time, from admiring abstract cake art, eating the cake plants at the cake-tanical gardens, and eating the animal-shaped cakes at the frosting zoo. Poppy, Smidge, Branch, Fuzzbert, and Cooper brought out their cake entry while Brandy and her girls arrived with theirs too. Rose arrived to join in the fun with Satin and Chenille, DJ Suki, Guy Diamond, Biggie, and Mr. Dinkles. When the Desert Competition is about to start, every competitor is ready for the display as the judges and the host arrive onstage.
"Welcome everybody to the Castle City's Cake Jamboree Dessert Contest!" The host said. "Our judges will decide on the best dessert based on the volume & general appearance, texture, taste, and originality."
The three judges, a sphinx, a sprite, and a faun are ready to judge each of the desserts. One entry after another, they judge each baker and cook with their entries but when they came to Brandy, she unveiled their not-so-pretty cake.
"Okay, no pushing for the tastiest treat of the day!" Brandy said arrogantly as she gave them cake slices from her entry.
The judges tried it but when it entered their mouths, it tasted very disgusting.
"I can't get the taste out of my tongue!" The sprite judge cried.
"Mine's got eggshells on it!" The faun judge cried.
"Their cake is so ugly from the inside and the outside, you need to go to cooking class again!" The sphinx judge said and the judges quickly disqualified Brandy and her girls.
When they went to see Poppy's entry, they were amazed by the cake that Poppy, Branch, Smidge, and Rose made. It is glittery blue and purple with frosted flowers.
"Okay, the volume and appearance are pretty, but let's see if the cake is sweet enough." The faun judge said as Branch gave them cake slices. The judges tasted it and they were so amazed by its taste.
"It tastes like Sparkle Melon but it's way better than Sparkle Melon!" The sphinx judge cried.
"And the flavor of your frosting is so original, what is the name of your flavor?" The sprite judge asked.
"It's called Giggleyum." Poppy answered.
With some thinking and adding the scores, the judges calculated the percentage of the entries and made their final decision.
"Okay, the judges have decided on the winner of the Castle City's Cake Jamboree Dessert Contest." The host announced.
The judges went up on stage and took the microphone.
"The winner of the Castle City's Cake Jamboree Dessert Contest is…..Penelope Monteiro's Magical Giggleyum Cake!" The sphinx judge announced.
Everybody cheered as Poppy and her friends got on stage and were handed the trophy. The rest of the Snack Pack tried the cake and they loved it.
"It's so delicious, I couldn't believe that you guys won with your original flavor!" Guy said.
"Yeah, and it's all thanks to a secret ingredient that requires practical jokes." Rose smugged as she took a bite from a Giggleyum cupcake.
The whole city was so amazed by the original flavor that swept the whole city when they tried the winning entry. It also became the latest flavor for the city as Giggleyum had swept throughout the city's bakeries, ice cream shops, candy stores, and restaurants by storm. As for Brandy and her friends, they sulk over their disqualification as the whole world is happily chowing down on Giggleyum.
