RP: Mmmm Candy Who: Juniper Carmichael, Alistar Summers Where: Honeydukes Sweet Shop When: October 20, 2024 Rating/Warnings: All Ages Summary: Old friends catching up over sweets
Juniper was working on a new series of candies for Christmas, using essential oils like orange and bergamot and would be speciality sweets for adults. At the moment she was stirring over a huge copper kettle filled with boiling sugar that was coming up to temperature to add the cream and the oils. She was going to use lavender oil for this batch, but not too much since she didn't want it to taste soapy and flowery. Just a hint and then she would sprinkle fleur de sel on the tops of the caramels after they were set and cubed.
She heard the door open to the front of the store, which was odd since it had been locked. Her husband was working at the Ministry - he was a file clerk - and there was only one other person who would...
"Evan? or is that you, Alistair?" Juniper called out, checking if it was her husband or their mutual friend. "I'm in the back and I can't come out or this batch will burn."