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Delight & reunite

The aroma was a mixture of sweet and savoury as I bustled around my grandmother’s kitchen creating the menu items I was sure would be appreciated.

I was in the midst of cooking a themed feast – a festive birthday surprise for my mom, which had been inspired by an event five years previously that had made my mom beam.

That crisp September day, in a Balmoral bakery, we gazed admiringly at a case filled with splendidly yummy pastries, but there was one that caught our eyes particularly.

The white icing hugged the biscuit in

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