It is a cooking (confection making) simulation with some dating sim elements.
The player is given a choice of four protagonists: Angelique Limoges, Rosalia de Catargena, Angelique Collet, or Rachel Hart.
The story takes place several years before the events in the first Angelique game and all the characters are correspondingly younger.
The goal of this game is to win the Rose Contest - the Smallney Academy cooking contest and become friends with the Sweet Knights along the way.
As it is in an alternate universe setting, it is generally not considered to be part of a story arc in the series.