Baker's Dozen

Owners of Baker’s Dozen Randy and Jill Jensen share their story…..

Baker’s Dozen…..home of the infamous spudnut donuts and the only place we know of that you can get a 13count dozen of donuts that you can pick and choose from a fantastic variety of donuts hand-made from scratch ( as long as you get up early!) Where you can find “Things Done the Old Fashion Way”.

Our Story began 45 years ago, in 1972 when as a recently returned LDS missionary and also a newly - wed husband, Randy Jensen took a job at the Buttrey’s grocery store Bakery on First Street in Idaho Falls, Idaho. There Randy entered the apprenticeship program to become a Journeyman Baker under the guidance and direction of two ancient and original bakers, Ty Barker and Ray Quinton. Randy developed skills in every step of scratch-baking and producing everything from spudnut donuts and cake donuts, breads of all types, sizes and shapes, to pies, dinner and wedding cakes, to cookies, pastries and novelties. Randy’s career took him to 17th street IGA grocery, Fred Meyers bakery manager as well as 20 years bakery owner inside Smith’s Food King on Woodruff as well as the Ridley’s Bakery in Pocatello and as the genius behind the hand mixed and made Bagels at Bagels & Cream in Idaho Falls.



33 years later, in September of 2005 now a Master Baker, Randy Jensen began a new adventure in his own bakery…The Baker’s Dozen, in a little shop at 561 S. Woodruff Ave, in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Five years later Randy hired a