Scrumpy Delight for Polly Pinch

It's been over a year since Zell's partner Nick died tragically during a post-Katrina relief mission in New Orleans. Long enough, according to the grief pamphlets, to have begun moving on with her life. But she hasn't even turned on her oven because cooking was Nick's chore. That is, until she decides to enter celebrity chef Polly Pinch's first annual 'Desserts that Warm the Soul' baking contest.  
Meanwhile, in the adjacent apartment, nine-year-old Ingrid Knox is plotting how she will meet her mother, whom she fiercely believes is Polly Pinch. When an embarrassing baking mishap brings Zell and Ingrid together, they form an unlikely friendship that will alter both of their lives forever.