Then whip 250 ml of heavy cream. Add a small can of condensed milk, the juice of 1 lemon and a bit of zest.
Spread over the top and refrigerate until it’s set or overnight.
I KNOW!
A very, very sweet and merry Christmas to you and yours,
Jenny, xx
Acknowledgments
THANK YOU SO much Rebecca Saunders, my editor, and Ali Gunn, my agent. Also Manpreet Grewal, David Shelley, Emma Williams, Charlie King, Jo Wickham, Doug, Sarah and the board—may our Christmas parties never run on predictable lines.
Apologies for the trumpet blowing, but special thanks to the wonderful Romantic Novelists Association, (www.rna.org.uk) for naming Rosie Hopkins’ Sweetshop of Dreams 2013’s Romantic Novel of the Year. It made writing another Rosie novel even more fun. OK, end of trumpet-blowing. And, as ever, thanks to my lovely sailor boy and the three wee bees.
A heartfelt thanks to everyone who’s gotten in touch, (@jennycolgan on twitter, or www.facebook.com/thatwriterjennycolgan) to say hello or to show me a recipe they’ve made; it makes my job so much more interactive and fun. I don’t always spot all my e-mails on Facebook so if there’s anyone I didn’t get back to I am SO SO SORRY and I owe you a cake.
Now, I have to tell you that obviously I have tested all the recipes in this book. Not all on the same day, of course. Seriously, how does Mary Berry stay that thin? It is the most ridiculous mystery in the world.
Merry Christmas and a peaceful new year to you and yours!
Jenny xx
About the Author
JENNY COLGAN is the New York Times bestselling author of Little Beach Street Bakery and Christmas at the Cupcake Café, as well as more than a dozen other beloved novels. She lives with her husband and three children in Scotland.
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Also by Jenny Colgan
The Little Beach Street Bakery
The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris
Welcome to Rosie Hopkins’ Sweetshop of Dreams
Meet me at the Cupcake Café
The Good, the Bad and the Dumped
Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend
Operation Sunshine
West End Girls
Where Have All the Boys Gone
Sixteen Again
Do You Remember the First Time
Working Wonders
Talking to Addison
Looking for Andrew McCarthy
Amanda’s Wedding
Credits
Cover design by Julia Gang and Mary McAdam Keane
Cover photograph © Susie M. Eising / Getty Images
Copyright
First published in Great Britain in 2013 by Sphere.
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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FIRST U.S. EDITION 2015
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been applied for.
EPub Edition OCTOBER 2015 ISBN 978-0-06-237120-1
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