A BAKER’S DOZEN STORY
Once upon a time in a little town called Anapotamia, lived a baker named Finn. He would bake
cakes, pies, cookies and everyone in the town would visit his shop to buy his food. He was a very
honest person and precise baker, who kept checking his scales and made sure that gave his
customers exactly what they paid for. That’s more like it people loved buying from Finn’s
Bakery because everything was delicious and his precision made him a trustworthy seller. His
bakery was always filled with people buying his food, especially on Angel Nikolai Day! There
would be a line of people waiting to get his delicious Angel Nikolai Cookies The Gingerbread
cookies topped with a sugary red and white icing, looked just like Angel Nikolai with a red and
white hat and a long Red cloak. The hypnotizing aroma, of the gingerbread cookies, spread
throughout the town, drawing people to his bakery.
That Angel Nikolai Day morning, as the doors to the bakery opened, people began to walk in to
get their cookies, people from all over the town flocked to Finn’s bakery to pick up a batch of his
famous Angel Nikolai Cookies. But it was one particular customer, that would change Finns’
fate forever. Finn took the tray and picked up twelve cookies and placed them in the box. He
packed up the box and handed it over to the little girl. Saying this, she stormed out of the Bakery.
Followed by the little girl.
From that day on, everything began to go wrong, the bread rose too much and the pies he made
were too sour, soon, people noticed how bad his food had become and slowly stopped going to
his shop, He went from one of the most successful baker’s in the town to a shop that nobody
went to. Finn went on with it for days, selling less and baking less, people rarely came to get
food from his bakery now and at the end of the day, he would go home sad.
A year had passed and it was days before the Angel Nikolai Day, when Finn found himself siting
in his bakery, all alone, with nobody to buy his precious Angel Nikolai cookies, that night, sad
and dejected, he closed his shop, went home and slept. Just as his said that he found himself in a
room, filled with children and in the midst of the crowd sat Angel Nikolai handing out present to
them. No matter how many present he handed out, the pile of gifts never seemed to lessen, if
anything, they doubled in number. Finn found himself as a young boy standing in awe, when
Angel Nikolai handed over a gift to him. It was one of his own famous Angel Nikolai Cookies,
he woke up with a start as the moonlight shone through the curtains and he sat there thinking.
On Angel Nikolai Day, at the break of dawn Finn went to the bakery and began to make the
cookies, putting together all his ingredients, with a big grin on his face. He rolled up the
gingerbread dough and cut up the pieces with the mold and soon they were baked. He spread the
red and white icing over the cookies and made them look exactly like Angel Nikolai, he was very
happy with the cookies which better than any that he had made before. Just as he was done,
Evanora walked in and went straight up to him. Seeing Evanora in the bakery, he smiled and
immediately counted twelve cookies, and one more then handed it over to Evanora.
Saying this, she thanked the baker and walked out of the door. And what she had foretold was
indeed true, as the news that Finn counted thirteen as a dozen spread quickly and people from all
over the town rushed to get a dozen of his delicious cookies. And soon, he became so wealthy,
that he decided to give food to the poor, every weekend for free, which drew more and more
people from the town and around to buy food from his bakery, thus learning that honesty and
generosity are important to spread the spirit of joy in the world.