New Bakery, Coffee Shop Open for Business

Horsham Donuts opened Tuesday morning.

Daniel Parkinson learned the basics of doughnut-making while working at Dunkin' Donuts during college.  A chemist by trade, Parkinson, 43, of Horsham, said he has thought about running his own doughnut and coffee shop for the last two or three years. On Tuesday, Parkinson was able to make his doughnut-making dream a reality with the opening of Horsham Donuts, 316 Horsham Road, within the Boxwood Shopping Center on Horsham Road.  "We’re going to offer everything from French cruller, to cake and yeast-risen," Parkinson said of the 16 to 20 varieties he and his other two bakers will be making for the business, which will be open from 5 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. "It's kind of limitless."  Parkinson estimated that he would have 400 or 500 doughy …

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Meet the Business Owner

Hatboro Baker Lets Them Eat Cake

Ciao Bella Cakes is the creation of Stefanie Kitchner, who specializes in crafting artistic desserts.

Stefanie Kitchner set out to express herself through the arts, at the last minute scrapping a photography career for a more savory path, melding both of her passions: being creative and making sweets. Kitchner, the owner and head cake-maker at Ciao Bella Cakes, concocts cakes that truly epitomize works of art. A bold-hued three-tiered asymmetrical cake sculpted with fondant looks more the part of a trio of haphazardly stacked hats than dessert, but Kitchner bills it as one of many funky wedding cake designs she's perfected since beginning her business in 2009.  "Here I am," the amicable Kitchner, 32, said from her business' kitchen in her nearly 1,600-square-foot Jacksonville Road commercial property. "I've arrived." Indeed. Kitchner, of …

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