Arnold pastry chef goes online

As head of a Severna Park pastry shop in the 1990s, Caterina Borg found sweet success selling desserts.

Among the treats was a chocolate chip cookie dough so popular that customers bought it in 10-pound boxes. Her award-winning chocolate fudge cake was equally successful.

But a bad divorce that ended an eight-year marriage eventually led to the closing of Premier Pastries.

"It was the hardest thing that I ever had to do," she said.

Ms. Borg overcame adversity by switching gears, working as a manager for US Foodservice. And in 2003 she worked as a marketing director while pursuing her MBA at Loyola...