Doylestown Bakery Kicks Off 80th Anniversary On Pi Day

DOYLESTOWN, PA ? Maryanne Pastry Shoppe will celebrate its 80th anniversary with a series of specials and promotions, including a kickoff event on Pi Day, Thursday, March 14.

Maryanne?s, located at 10 Atkinson Drive in Doylestown, will offer specials on cherry, blueberry and apple mini pies and several other items on Pi Day, where math lovers and scientists unite to commemorate the mathematical sign of Pi.

Maryanne?s will honor its 80th customer with a free pie while offering a preview of its St. Patrick?s Day bakery items including Irish Soda bread, frog cupcakes, Leprechaun pound cake, and sugar shamrock cookies.

?We are sincerely grateful to all of our retail and corporate customers,? said owner Christopher Kuttler, whose grandparents emigrated from Germany and started the bakery in the 1940s. ?We will have fun commemorating this anniversary milestone and look forward to continuing to serve the Bucks County community.?

In 1944, Adolf and Elise Kuttler, who emigrated from Germany, opened Maryanne Pastry Shoppe at the corner of Chelten and Boyer Street in the Germantown section of Philadelphia. The store, which thrived with the help of several family members, closed when the couple retired in 1967.

A short time later, the Kuttler's son, Herb, and his wife Mariann, reopened the Pastry Shoppe in a new location - Sea Isle City, New Jersey. That location, run by Chris Kutler?s brother, Matt, still exists today. In 1996, Chris Kuttler opened a second Maryanne?s in Doylestown. The Shoppe moved to its current location, at 10 Atkinson Drive, eight years ago.

?I think our grandparents would be very proud,? Kuttler said.

Maryanne Pastry Shoppe has a wide variety of baked goods, including donuts, cinnamon buns, cakes, cupcakes, pies, German pastries, croissants, danishes, cookies, and petits fours. Maryanne?s offers a 10 percent discount to veterans and employees of the Central Bucks School District. The bakery donates to several charities.