When the Princess Rescued the Prince - fantasyREADERS

EXCERPT FROM
Sir Marzipan
Once there was a princess whose father wished her to
choose a husband, but she did not like any of the men she
knew. “Just what kind of a man do you want?” her father
demanded.
“That's an interesting question,” said the princess,
whose name was Bianca. “I will think it over.” After a
few days, she returned to her father and said: “I want a
husband who is handsome, but not too handsome. I want
him to be sharp, but not too sharp. I want him to be sweet,
but not too sweet. I want him to be spicy, but not too
spicy….”
The king became angry. “You cannot just make up a
man to suit yourself, like ordering a cake from the baker!”
“That's a good idea,” said the princess.
The king began jumping up and down and screaming,
so the princess went away to the kitchen. There she
ordered the cooks to bring her twenty pounds of flour,
twenty pounds of sugar, and twenty pounds of powdered
almonds.
After they brought the ingredients, she sent the cooks
home. She mixed the ingredients well, added water, and
molded a handsome man just like she wanted. She worked
very, very carefully for a long time till she got him just
right. Then just after moonrise, she used a wheelbarrow
from the garden to carry him to the woods where there
was a fairy ring of mushrooms in the moonlight.