Baker’s new recipe: By Aditya S

Chris felt angry and sad about his job because he wasn’t earning money.

Very few people came to his bakery. Chris used to have many people coming to his bakery, but later people didn’t like the cookies and stopped coming. Chris tried to come up with an idea that could make the cookies taste better and get more customers to his bakery. He took his recipe book and looked for recipes that could make the cookies taste better. He tried to use some of the recipes that were in the book, but for him, it didn’t taste better. Some of them were too bitter, too sour, and too sweet. He wanted one that could make the cookies taste perfect. Chris tried the last of the recipes that were in his book. He took the recipes and left them in the oven for a whole day. While the cookies were in the oven, Chris went to sleep and waited for 24 hours. He kept on thinking if this would make the cookies taste better. Would this get more people to come to his bakery? He kept worrying about the cookies, but soon after, he fell asleep. While Chris was sleeping, little sparkles were coming from the windows, but Chris couldn’t see them. Those sparkles from the lights were Fairies. 

The Fairies wanted to help Chris make the cookies taste better, without Chris knowing it. The Fairies put a bit of sprinkle on the recipes and made changes to the recipe book. Then the Fairies went back to their land. When the Fairies left, it was morning for Chris. He went to check on the cookies. While he was walking to the cookies, on the table, he saw that the recipe book was different from yesterday. He then tasted the cookies and found them perfect, but he still wondered how the recipe book and the cookies were different. He thought that someone had sneaked into his bakery and swapped the books and the cookies, which didn’t happen. He looked at the recipe book very carefully to see if it was swapped, but when he checked the other recipes he tried, they were all the same. Chris didn’t think that he had bad eyesight, or he mis-saw it. He wondered and wondered how the recipe book and the cookies had changed.

After Chris tried the recipe book, he knew it would get many customers back. He had a Ballpark figure for signs, boards, and flyers all over his town. When people saw the boards and signs,  they went to Chris’s bakery. “If I don't like this Meringue, you have to give me back my money!” yelled an old grumpy man. “Sure,” replied Chris. The old grumpy man tried the cookies and felt joyful. He ate all the cookies in less than 2 minutes. “Wow, I like these cookies. You don’t need to give back my money. These cookies are better than an old rabbit’s carrot!” said the old grumpy man. “Thanks,” replied Chris. The old grumpy man told all his friends to come to visit his bakery shop. All the cookies tasted very good. A million and one people in town went to try the cookies in the bakery, and they all liked it. Chris became the affluent man in town, but he still kept wondering how the recipe book had changed and how the taste of the cookies had changed too. After the fairies saw Chris being befuddled about how the whole new thing happened, they felt bad for him because he kept sleeping late. So the fairies put some sprinkles onto Chris’s head to make him sleep. They went near him quietly and slowly put the sprinkles on him, but Chris turned his head around. The fairies quickly went hiding and back to Chris’s head and put the sleeping sprinkles on his head. Chris fell asleep and the fairies put some sprinkles that would make him forget about all of the things that were changed by the fairies. Chris woke up in a happy mood. He wasn’t feeling too well; he felt a little confused after the fairies put sprinkles on his head. But he forgot about it and went to open his Delicatessen. At Chris’s bakery shop, there was a whole crowd. Chris was happy to see them, so he gave all the new cookies to the people in the town.

By:

Aditya Shrivastav