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IDAHO FALLS

Late baker’s closest associates launch bakery in his reminiscence

IDAHO FALLS – Randy Jensen, the beloved baker who owned Baker’s Dozen in Idaho Falls for a few years, spent a lifetime serving his selfmade treats to clients.

Greater than a yr after his passing, a few of his closest associates are carrying on his legacy with the launch of a bakery in his reminiscence.

The Guardian Bake Store opened in Idaho Falls on June 22 inside Teton Village at 2095 East seventeenth Avenue. His former spouse, Jillian Metzger, co-owns the enterprise together with her daughters, Samantha and Alysa Matheson, and her husband, Darrel Metzger. Jillian’s son, Dustin, who works on the Costco bakery, can also be concerned.

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The bakery is devoted solely to gluten-free desserts and serves clients 5 days per week between 10 a.m. and seven p.m. Regardless of some preliminary uncertainty concerning the working hours, Jillian tells EastIdahoNews.com the response from the group has been nice.

“Prospects who are available actually like (the hours). They love having the choice of with the ability to cease by after work, but in addition are available a bit of earlier within the mornings,” Jillian says.

The menu consists of quite a lot of doughnuts, cookies and cake — a few of that are additionally sugar-free, dairy-free and egg-free. The bitter cream old style doughnut is the bakery’s most requested merchandise, Jillian says.

Chili cheese cornbread, a leftover piece from a restaurant Darrel as soon as owned in Swan Valley known as The Wagonmaster, can also be accessible.

The choice to focus singly on gluten-free objects was motivated by Jillian’s sensitivity to gluten, which regularly made her sick or led to antagonistic reactions.

“I wound up … having rashes (generally) … to the purpose that it was extreme sufficient I (needed to keep away from it in any respect prices),” she says. “I began baking and cooking in another way, and that was occurring similtaneously our life at Baker’s Dozen.”

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Learn the obituary for Randy Jensen

She’s refined her recipes over time, and after Jensen’s premature passing, she noticed a chance to open her personal store.

Jillian and her daughters spent a few years working alongside Jensen, they usually’ve inherited his love of baking. His rolling pin hangs on the wall above the counter the place fresh-baked doughnuts are displayed.

“We intend to do a mural (of him) there on that wall,” Jillian explains.

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The enterprise’s identify and gnome brand can also be a loving tribute to Jensen. Samantha says that Jensen labored lengthy hours and would develop into grumpy at occasions. In these moments, she lovingly referred to him as a “grumpy outdated gnome.”

Jillian began crying when she defined that “The Guardian” has a double that means that suggests Jensen’s spirit is the guardian of her bakery. On the identical time, it’s an expression of her want for the enterprise to be a guardian for folks’s well being as a result of Jensen’s dying was health-related.

She is planning an official grand opening for the bakery. A date has not been decided.

She’d additionally like to begin promoting bread, rolls and cinnamon rolls in her retailer. Jillian is hoping to supply a seating space for purchasers sooner or later as nicely.

“We had some clients come within the different day that requested if there may be anywhere to sit down down. The environment is simply one thing you need to take pleasure in, and I’d think about we’d do the identical factor wherever we go,” says Jillian.

Jillian says seeing clients go to the bakery has made this enterprise “enjoyable” and “endearing,” and she or he’s wanting ahead to continually bettering her merchandise as time goes by.

The Guardian Bake Store is open 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday by Saturday.

BIZ BITS

LDS Church buys property in Rigby

RIGBY – A 73-acre parcel of land throughout from Rigby Excessive Faculty was just lately bought by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Andrew and Jorelle McClellan with Silvercreek Realty Group purchased Farmington Station, which surrounds Dansie Dental on ID Freeway 48 in Rigby, in January 2021. They had been initially planning to show it right into a mixed-use growth with residential housing on the again 10 acres and industrial area occupying the remainder of it.

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The challenge by no means moved ahead, however public data obtained from Jefferson County point out the church purchased it. It’s unclear what it plans to do with it. Larry Fisher, a church consultant for the Pocatello space, tells EastIdahoNews.com Latter-day Saint leaders don’t sometimes focus on these particulars with the general public.

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