Baking Second Chances

Times are good, and 1950s moms are hungry for pastries to serve their baby boomer families. Icky’s Cookies fly off local grocery store shelves, and with each new variety, the neighborhood is filled with the enticing aroma of Saigon cinnamon, ginger, vanilla, and molasses.

Soon, national grocery chains and distributors want to buy his product, too, and Icky thinks he’s made it big in the commercial baked goods market. But just as he’s ready to expand his bakery, an editorial in the local newspaper suggests cookie “fumes” could pose a danger to nearby Marcus Park.

Will all good things crumb to an end? Perhaps.

Baking Second Chances is a local-guy-bakes-good story about a faithful man who follows his call to reflect God’s glory even when the world seems stacked against him—and family and friends who are willing to put their cookie-eating mouths where their hearts are.

Ann Haut is the author of faith-based books based on Haut's Cookie Shoppe, a family-owned business based in Olean, New York. She taught ethics at Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Columbus, and John Carroll University, Cleveland, Ohio, and now resides in North Carolina. She can be reached at www.annhaut.com.