An Amish Christmas Bakery
This anthology contains 4 Christmas bakery stories.
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Cookies and Cheer by Amy Clipston
Alyssa this season starting right after Thanksgiving includes her working at home first, then at the bakery among redesigning the front window display for the shop.
Her window designs are unique and she gets the owner to ok her design for Christmas. She then asks Kyle the metal worker in town if he could help her make cookie cutters.
The newspaper gets wind of it and makes a story headline and puts the shop with so much business it makes Alyssa run out of time most days to get much else accomplished.
She's about falling asleep on her feet and has not done gifts or helping at home or even spending dinner with the family. She is also been out to dinner with Kyle and with his family at their house.
Love that the cutters are such a hit and so different from normal ones. She realizes that not only can they sell the cookies with scriptures but also cutters until Kyle can no longer make them-for this season cuz he's so busy with his own family work.
She realizes it and makes everybody happy with how she divides her time...
Wish there were recipes. great short story..
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Loaves of Love by Beth Wiseman
David from another district has been spending time with Katie and they go out often.
She's taking care of the bakery while her mother recuperates from surgery. Other's take care of the house and meals.
Henry's sisters has a guest for dinner, Clara who he ran into at an auction. So funny!
Henry had wanted to ask Katie out but couldn't do it, til it was too late.
David shows Katie all the modern conveniences she's missing out on... her family doesn't like modern conveniences...
Love ending and loaves of love and how they got wood stoves back, for the right flavor...
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Melting Hearts by Kathleen Fuller
This story starts out with Maddie and she's moved in with her uncle to help her aunt run the bakery.
It's around Christmas and she keeps busy with decorating the shop and baking and crocheting.
This I find fascinating as most just knitted that I've read about. Peter is due to also move in to help with improvements to the bakery.
The aunt is on bed rest now and she avoids Peter and he tries to avoid her also. Her freckles all over her face really get to him.
She's mad at him for something he did to Lizzie-a friend of Maddie's. She will learn the real story soon...
Love hearing of the craft/yarn store.
Very warm feeling when I hear of her teaching him how to wind yarn and the lessons she gives to the aunt...
Love that she also makes scarves for others in the winter for charity.
Love when she finds out for herself just how good of a friend Lizzie is to her. Her and Peter had a truce and are now friends.
Like the ending, didn't see it coming out this way.
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Cakes and Kisses by Kelly Irvin
Martha notices the local boys tripping Ambrose who's on an errand for the ex. priest who has left her commission.
She is getting married to Matt and is asking Martha to make the wedding cake. Martha has lost her father, then mother and is
taking care of all the siblings and working at the bakery. Her mother would compliment her telling her she can do whatever she sets out to do and do it well.
Love the encouragement and why so many help him to achieve his best.
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Wish there were recipes.
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