Design Your Own Cake, From Your Couch
Warner's now has a 3D cake designer built right into the website — custom-built by Forever Still Studio. Build your cake, pick the colors and decorations, spin it around, and send it straight to Hilary.
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The Cookie That Became Eat'n Park
In 1949, Ellsworth Warner baked a cheerful frosted cookie that made Titusville smile. In 1986, a restaurant founder drove up from Pittsburgh and bought the recipe. Here's the full story.
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A 1940s Wartime Recipe That Accidentally Invented Keto Bread
Sugar was rationed. Dairy was scarce. So Ellsworth Warner made bread with four ingredients. 80 years later, the keto and diabetic communities found it — and they won't let it go.
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She Studied Architecture. Then She Found Her True Calling.
Hilary Hanna spent about ten years working at architecture firms in Buffalo and Erie before finding Warner's Bakery — a 75-year-old institution in need of someone who understood structure. Turns out, design and baking aren't that different.
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Still Made By Hand: The Story of Warner's Long Johns
Every Warner's Long John is made completely by hand by Hilary's husband, Dustin — the same old-fashioned way for decades, from a recipe nobody can quite date.
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Every Day After School
The bell rings. Some kids walk past Warner's on Franklin Street. Some walk in. Hilary is usually there, and sometimes there are cookies left over. She hands them out. No charge. No announcement. Just what it means to run a bakery in the town where you live.
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