Prompt: Your favorite flavor is key lime and Shawn, a baker who has a little crush on you, tries to bake a key lime shortcake for you
Warnings: A swear word
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The recipe called for ¾ cup butter softened, 1 and ⅔ cups of granulated white sugar, 3 large eggs, 1 cup of milk, 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract, ¼ cup of fresh key lime juice (or regular lime juice), 2 teaspoons fresh key lime zest, 2 ¾ cups of all purpose flour, 1 tablespoon of baking powder, and ¾ salt.
And that was only for the cake.
This recipe was easy as cake, or what Shawn often thought in his head, easy as strawberry shortcake. He considered himself the master at baking shortcakes, having learned from his mother who would bake one every year for his birthday. It was one of his trademarks, it was how his bakery earned a top rating in a prestigious Toronto food magazine. But with the little twist he was putting on this cake...It wasn't working out in his favor.
Instead of a strawberry shortcake, Shawn had his eye set on making a key lime shortcake, and everything was going horribly wrong. But he wasn't giving up because key lime was your favorite flavor.
Whenever you walked into his and Brian's bakery, you always went for the mini key lime pies, key lime cupcakes, key lime flavored cookies with a spritz of lemon juice...You were always up for trying anything with key lime. While most of the creations flopped with the general public––Key lime is not a profitable flavor, Shawn, Brain always chastised him––He always made sure to have at least one key lime product always in the display case.
Just for you.
Some of their other unconventional flavors were a hit: the pistachio whipped cream, the chocolate chip cookie with melted skittles on top, or the macadamia nut ice-cream with a dark chocolate swirl...Those were all top sellers. But anything key lime? Not a chance.
Shawn was determined to make this work. It was going to work for you. The cake was giving him a little trouble, he had yet to test out a whipped cream, and he definitely didn't want to think about how on earth he was going to make macerated key limes to mimic the key element of a strawberry shortcake.
He was pulling his hair out trying to perfect this key lime recipe that, at one point, he just thought about squeezing acidic key lime juice in his eyes to put himself out of his misery.
But he held off on blinding himself.
He decided to make his way from the back kitchen to the front of the shop where Brian had said a good night to a store patron. Brian gave him an amused look as Shawn leaned against the back counter and then slowly slumped down until he was sitting on the ground.
"I don't think that's a very sanitary thing for a baker to do," Brian laughed at how exhausted his business partner looked as he refilled the register with receipt paper. Shawn flipped him off and Brian let out another laugh, "How's that cake coming along?"
Shawn rubbed his eyes with the heel of his palm, "It's shit," he answered as he pushed himself off from the ground and began to untie his stained apron.
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