Jimmy Mouse and the Cake Competition.

Dedicated to Nina from Strasbourg in France.

Hello, hello!

And welcome to Story Norrie.

You're listening to Jana and I am back with a mouth-watering mousy story featuring Jimmy Mouse

and his friends.

The Cafe by the Sea was famous for its scrumptious cakes.

The customers loved them and the mice who lived under the floorboards loved them even more. But nothing stays the same forever.

When the cake maker's YouTube channel hit one million subscribers, she gave up baking for real people.

You might think the loss of such a genius baker would be a crisis for the cafe,

but there was no shortage of eager replacements, all hungry to take a slice of her success.

Every day the new bakers arrived with sweet, fragrant creations,

sparkling with caramelised sugar and glistening with icing.

These weren't your everyday Victoria sponges or lemon drizzles, no, these were cakes like you've never tasted before.

Have you ever tasted pumpkin and ginger cake? Or Earl Grey and Lavender sponge with sugared petals on top?

Or what about spicy Persian passion cake?

You haven't tried them?

Well, neither had the mice who lived in the cafe.

In fact, they found the new cakes, well, just a little bit too fancy for their own good.

Jimmy, the bravest of the mice, known for his heroic exploits, asked Judith a serious question.

Uh, Judith? Is mice so caramel, have anything to do with mice?

Judith shook her head.

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