Angela Nicely: Cupcake Wars!

Angela Nicely: Cupcake Wars! is a book.

Cupcake Wars!
Miss Darling has an announcement: the Spring Fair is approaching. She explains that they already have a lucky dip, face-painting booth, and toy stall, but she wants some more suggestions. The Payne twins suggest a "dinosaur stall", while Spike wants a "Spiderman stall", but those are turned down for being "difficult". Angela thinks of a cake stall and whispers it to Laura, but Tiffany overhears and steals the idea, making Angela angry. When Miss Darling allows Tiffany to run a cake stall, Angela, Laura, and Maisie decide to run their own and sell homemade cupcakes.

When Miss Darling takes note of which of her students want to help with the fair, Tiffany objects to Angela also wanting to run a cake stall, and they argue. Miss Darling suggests they run one together, but both girls refuse, so she lets them run separate stalls. When Angela gets home, she asks Mrs Nicely for a hundred cupcakes, then explains that she, Laura, and Maisie are running a cake stall to compete against Tiffany, and plan to make the cupcakes but require Mrs. Nicely's assistance. Mrs. Nicely, glad to one-up Tiffany due to her obnoxious mother, agrees.

The following week, Laura and Maisie come over to the Nicely house, where Mrs. Nicely teaches them and Angela how to measure the ingredients. Then, Laura and Maisie crack the eggs, but they spill some, and when Mrs. Nicely tries to teach Angela how to use the electric mixer, she accidentally sets it on "high speed" and makes a mess. Mrs. Nicely cleans up, finishes the mixing (believing it's "safer" than allowing Angela to retry), then Laura and Maisie spoon the batter into cups and Mrs. Nicely bakes them. While she goes upstairs to change, she lets the girls ice the cupcakes, some of which are a bit misshapen. Angela, feeling like she needs to make the cupcakes extra special, decides to ice hers in rainbow colours. However, the icings mix together, so she tries mixing all the colours together to make rainbow icing, which understandably fails, but they decide to sell Angela's cupcakes anyway since the icing is used up. On the day of the fair, Angela is frustrated to find that Tiffany and her friend Alice are also selling cupcakes.

Due to Angela's ugly icing, her cake stall proves unpopular, while Tiffany's is popular. Angela, jealous, decides to draw a crowd by lowering the price so that her cupcakes are cheaper than Tiffany's. This attracts a girl's attention, so Tiffany comes up with a gimmick as well: writing people's names on cupcakes. Soon, Maisie and Laura's cupcakes sell out, leaving only Angela's. When Maisie complains that no one will buy Angela's cupcakes as they look like "blobby monsters", Angela decides to encourage customers to put monster faces on them with candy. Thus, they sell out, and Tiffany scowls at Angela and her friends.

Pony Party!
During News Time, Tiffany shares that her birthday is on Saturday and the party is taking place at a stable, and her pony, Princess, will be attending. At break time, Angela is in two minds about whether she wants to be invited: on the one hand, she and Tiffany are nemeses, but on the other hand, she has always wanted to ride a pony and is curious as to what a "pony party" entails. To Angela's shock, she ends up being invited.

Angela tells her parents about the invitation at dinner and while Mr. Nicely, due to his positive attitude, is sure it will be fun, Mrs. Nicely is dubious since Angela dislikes Tiffany and has never ridden a horse before. Mrs. Nicely reads that the invitation says to "dress for riding", but thinks jodhpurs would be too expensive, so decides that Angela should wear jeans instead. All the while, Angela wonders why Tiffany, who isn't usually a virtuous sort of person, invited her.

On the day of the party, Angela is dropped off by Mr. Nicely. She notices the other party guests, her classmates Sophie, Alice, and Suki, and that they're wearing riding hats and jodhpurs. The other girls tease Angela for not wearing riding clothes and for being a novice rider. Angela, in a borrowed, too-big riding hat, is given a horse named Dobbin to ride, but due to a shortage of ponies, he is a full-size horse.

Angela climbs onto Dobbin's back, scared at how tall he is. Mrs. Charmers presents an obstacle course for the girls and their horses, and Tiffany and her friends tease Angela and say she's bound to lose. The girls try the course one at a time, and Tiffany is in the lead, then Angela is the last contestant. Initially, Dobbin refuses to move, until a horsefly bites him and he charges forward. He ends up doing the course flawlessly, making Angela the winner.

Neighbourhood Watch!
On a rainy Saturday morning, Angela is impatiently waiting for her friends to come over, when she spots a sticker and asks Mrs. Nicely what it's for. She explains that it shows the Nicelys are on the Neighbourhood Watch, which is a sort of "club" where they watch their neighbours for any suspicious activity such as breaking and entering. Angela wants to be in the club and Mrs. Nicely says that it isn't for children, but she can watch for anything unusual if she wants. Angela goes upstairs and decides to spy on Mr. Monk, since she believes his moustache looks fake and she wonders if he has a reason for hating children.

Laura and Maisie come over and wonder what to do. Angela explains about the Neighbourhood Watch and suggests watching Mr. Monk. They watch him (while Maisie writes his actions down) for an estimated hour, but grow bored, since Mr. Monk never does anything abnormal. However, Angela then notices that he has changed into a black jumper, trousers, and balaclava, causing her to suspect him of being a burglar. Maisie and Laura aren't convinced; they think Angela is just being dramatic, but Angela points out that Mr. Monk did leave at one point.

Some time later, Mr. Monk exits his house having removed the balaclava, and Angela, set on proving that he's a burglar, runs up to him and makes small talk, during which he reveals that his wife isn't there. When she asks what he's been doing, he angrily drives off, and she takes his anger as proof he's a burglar. She, despite her friends' protests, searches his garage and finds two silver candlesticks, suspecting them to be stolen. She then sees a freshly-dug patch of earth, making her more suspicious.

Angela digs up the patch, but finds nothing of note, and then Mr. Monk returns, so the girls hide under a blanket. They try to escape with the blanket still draped over them, but run into Mr. Monk. He threatens to call the police, so they accuse him of being a burglar, but he explains that he was only wearing the clothes to paint his bedroom ceiling, the candlesticks (which aren't real silver) are his, and the dug-up patch was a tulip bed he planted to surprise his wife. As punishment, he makes the girls redo the garden.