Meet Our Baker

Donna Feldman, the baker behind the delicious pastries at both McFarlan's locations, has been making magic with flour, butter, and sugar for more than two decades. Donna, who spent the first 10 years of her career at the Ponzio’s Diner in Cherry Hill, learned the century old recipes from the original Christen Family Baker over 17 years ago at the Swiss Pastry Shop. Swiss Haus Bakery bakes the finest Cakes, Pastries, and Cookies using century old European recipes that have been a Philadelphia Tradition for 90 years. In 2007, the Swiss Pastry Shop went out of business and closed its doors forever. Happily, several weeks later, Jim Hausman could not imagine a birthday without the famous Swiss Haus Hazelnut cake so he set out on a mission to find the unemployed Chef of the Swiss Pastry Shop, Donna Feldman, to see if she would like to start a new bakery. Jim found Donna and convinced her not to move to Maine and to stay in Philadelphia to open the Swiss Haus Bakery. Our marketing team fell in love with Donna's desserts and wanted our customers to get to know her better so they sat down with her to talk brioche and banjos.