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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