Chapter 2: Choosing the Right Cake
As Mung Daal got out the large cooking textbook, the chef flipped through the various pages, to which Chowder was still quite excited that they were going to enter the Monster Cake Melee Bash contest.
"Come on Mung, I want to bake that cake!" cried Chowder as he kept on hopping up and down to which Shnitzel then grabbed Chowder which stopped him from hopping up and down.
"Thanks" said Mung as he turned the next page to Shnitzel.
"Radda, radda, radda" replied Shnitzel.
"Oh, here's a cake we can make" said Mung as he pointed to the page that was really a pound cake.
"Wow, a pound cake!" cried Chowder as his tongue slurped all over his face after looking at the picture of the cake in the book.
"Radda, radda, radda!" cried Shnitzel as he brought Chowder right up to his face.
"But I wasn't going to eat it" replied Chowder.
"Put him down Shnitzel" said Mung as he took the large textbook with him, "come on, we got to get these ingredients for a pound cake."
"Radda, radda, radda?" asked Shnitzel as the three were traveling to where the ingredients were located.
"What kind of a pound cake are we going to make you ask?" asked Mung to Shnitzel.
"Radda, radda, radda" replied Shnitzel.
"We're going to make the old fashion Royal Guard version of the pound cake, it's quite a monster cake that'll be able to take on any cake Endive can dish up" said Mung.
"So what do we need Mung?" asked Chowder.
"Here's a list of ingredients" replied Mung as he wrote down the list of ingredients shown on the book and handed it over to his apprentice, "I want you to go and fetch these ingredients and bring them back to me."
"Oh boy, it also includes smashed No Fruit in it!" cried Chowder as he slobbered all over the list to which Shnitzel grabbed it from him and wiped it dry.
"Radda, radda, radda, radda" said Shnitzel as he handed the list over to Chowder and shooed him off, "radda, radda, radda?"
"I'm quite confident that Chowder could get these ingredients for us" replied Mung.
A few minutes later, Chowder was back in the market area as he held the No Fruit in a bag he was carrying. The chef apprentice then read down the list of ingredients he had to acquire which was going to acquire quite a bit of work. Among those listed ingredients listed on the paper were some sort of a strange diamond fruit that could be only found in Marzipan City's local Royal Family's bakery. The chef apprentice had to travel quite a bit, which poor Chowder got tired quite quickly and had to rest for a few minutes before continuing. Finally, he had reached the Royal Family bakery in Marzipan City which was only about ten blocks away from Mung Daal's place.
"Can I help you sir?" asked the clerk at the desk whom had somewhat of a British accent as he noticed Chowder coming into the place quite tired and warn out.
"Yes, I need this" replied Chowder as he pointed to the diamond-like fruit on the list.
"Oh, I see, you're going to enter in that Monster Cake Melee Bash contest I have been hearing so much about" replied the clerk, "well, we tried to enter the contest a year ago, yet we were disqualified because we were too advanced."
"Well, can I please, please, please have it?" asked Chowder as he was still trying to catch his breath.
"Fine, fine" replied the clerk as he then rang the Big-Ben like bell signaling what seemed like a Royal Guard coming into the scene handing Chowder a good number of the ingredients.
"Wow, thanks mister!" cried Chowder as he left the scene after paying the clerk.
"Nice kid" said the clerk to the Royal Guard who didn't say a thing since it was his duties never to speak while in uniform.
The scene then changes back to where Chowder is seen running back to Mung Daal's place, to which the chef apprentice was quite out of breath as he entered the main room which Truffles was there at the desk noticing Chowder quite well out of breath.
"What the heck happened to you, did you run a marathon or something?" asked Truffles to Chowder.
"No" replied Chowder as he continued to keep on trying to catch his breath, "I was getting this!"
"Well Chowder, it's about time you got back" replied Mung as he came into the scene, "come on, come on, come back to the kitchen with me."
"Yes, I'll get there right away" replied Chowder.
A few seconds later, Chowder arrived back in the kitchen with the ingredients Mung had asked for. The chef apprentice handed over the bag to Mung who then laid them all out on the table.
"Are we going to bake a cake now?" asked Chowder with such excitement.
"Of course" replied Mung, "if we're going to make a monster cake, we're going to need a lot of yeast to do the job."
"Radda, radda, radda" said Shnitzel as he came into the scene with quite a lot of yeast in a large bag and laid it right on the floor.
"Oh boy, yeast!" cried Chowder as he rushed to the bag.
"Come on, pay attention here Chowder" said Mung as he began to crack a few eggs and place them into a large bowl as he had to stand on a ladder to do it, "we're going to make that monster pound cake to beat Endive's monster cake!"
"Yea, oh boy!" cried Chowder.
"Come on Shnitzel, I need your help to load up that yeast into the bowl" said Mung, "since Chowder here isn't that strong as you are."
"Radda, radda, radda" sighed Shnitzel as he grabbed the large bag of yeast and poured it right into the large bowl as he then took Mung's place on the ladder.
While Mung Daal was making his own monster cake, Endive was certainly going to make her own cake to counter his at the arena. Yet after Endive managed to get all the ingredients on the list for the cake, she was quite suspicious on what was Mung cooking up so, she then turned to Panini, her apprentice to be assigned for a special job.