Cake Eater

It's not just about the cake, it's the fact that everyone knew about it. No one would dare say a word, but they all knew. This time however, someone would speak up. Everyone will know...

She always thought that because her family used to own the biggest bakery chain in the county, it would be to her advantage. Samantha Wynning knew that perhaps it was time to try a different recipe altogether. This year, she had to win the local annual cake making contest.

Her grandmother, Stella Wynning, had been making this chocolate cake for her birthday ever since she could remember. The cake was amazing! In fact it was so good it was used by her great grandmother to impress her in laws who happened to be very rich. Sam decided she would stick to the recipe. It had to win!

The winners were being announced...Sam was feeling hopeful. Everyone is listening and Sam's cake wins first place! The towns people who knew about the cake made by her great grandmother could hardly believe this same recipe handed down for generations actually won.

The actual origins of the cake recipe is as known to many but not to all, as the origins of the in laws wealth but they swore it was the best they ever tasted. To Samantha's delight, it seems the judges finally agreed!

What Sam already knew about the cake recipe was that it had been what made her in laws rich in the first place. She learned more recently from her mother, that her great grandmother was given the recipe by her husband but he never told her it was his father's recipe. He knew if he wanted to impress his parents with his new bride, she could only make cake one way, the Wynning way. Isn't that rich?!

While the recipe being more than she knew may have come as a surprise to Sam, that wasn't the whole story or even the right one. The one that really had people talking then and even now...

What Sam didn't know but soon found out through the local gossip who made a point of telling everyone she bumped into, was that that recipe was used to make the town's most infamous cake of all.

The Wynning Bakery was commissioned to make a cake so big, so grand, so rich a chocolate cake for none other than the town's even more infamous serial killer. He wanted it for his last meal. What's worse is that one of Sam's relatives had been abducted and killed by this monster so it made the request all the more upsetting to say the least.

Naturally, the initial request was denied but it still made the news. A cake so grand, so rich would surely be a great way to go and might even take a man down if he tried to eat the whole thing himself! Trust that the Wynnings did consider that.

The law enforcement understood the Wynnings reluctance but when they were told that they really needed them to comply since the killer agreed he would give up the locations of the burial site of his victims if and only if he received his bold and grand request. The lead detective was in need of more information in hopes to close a few cold cases if not just for some closure for some families and himself.

So the bakery made the grand and soon to be infamous cake. At least it meant that man would finally be put down once and for all. Sales didn't suffer, in fact the bakery sold more of that chocolate cake than any other time since it's opening!

Samantha Wynning started to understand why her parents sold the bakery and that recipe along with a few other favorites. So while Sam did win the annual cake making contest, she felt a little differently now since learning of the off putting history behind that particular recipe.

The Wynning way of making an amazing chocolate cake was never the issue, it was merely superstition that attached itself to the recipe. At least now Samantha could rest easy knowing it wasn't something she was lacking. She was a great baker but this would be the last time she used that recipe and she was more than okay with that.