Local business owners team up for unique shop, bakery in Bellefonte

Two local business owners that have been collaborating for years have opened up a shop together in the heart of downtown Bellefonte that merges two unexpected worlds: 3D printing and baking.

Lizzy’s Toy Box and Elizabeth Henry’s, owned by Bellefonte locals Daniel Henry and Nikki Zamora, respectively, are now operating together at 206 W. High St., the building that previously housed Little Bears Daycare.

The pair acquired the space in May 2025 and opened their doors on the weekend of Bellefonte’s Victorian Christmas celebration in December.

“Has the opening of this new business has been pretty daunting? Yes, but it’s also been a pretty exciting time for everyone involved,” Henry said Monday. “There’s not really anything quite like this in Bellefonte, and there never has been.”

The beginning of a unique business partnership

Henry and Zamora have known each other since high school, and have worked alongside each other since 2020, when Zamora asked Henry if he could make 3D printed cookie cutters for her to sell. At that time, Zamora had been running Elizabeth Henry’s out of her home for two years.

That was Henry’s first time operating a 3D printer, and as he continued to create new items with it, he hatched the idea for Lizzy’s Toy Box — a 3D printing company where he makes items like dragons, video game and pop culture memorabilia, board game grids to keep small pieces locked into place, Dungeons & Dragons materials, mini figurines, skulls, keychains and more.

The duo spent five years setting up stands and selling their goods at local events like the Grange Fair, Aaronsburg’s Dutch Fall Festival, Bellefonte’s Sunday Fundays and more until they were finally able to invest in a permanent home.

“Before this space, Nikki and I both were basically running our businesses out of our own homes,” Henry said. “Everything is done here, in-house now. The baking, the 3D printing — all of it is done here, which at least for me, has been a great convenience.”

A look inside the new store

Customers that walk through the doors of the new space will be greeted with a large, open room, and the aroma of freshly baked goodies wafting from a glass display case. The case holds a large variety of baked goods, like different flavors of macarons, cupcakes, cake pops, cookies, bread and more.

All baked goods are made fresh either that day or the day before, and according to Henry, the way that Zamora makes her macarons have made them a popular choice for customers.

“Nikki makes all of her macarons the French way, which as I understand it, is the much more difficult way of making them,” Henry said. “There have been people from other states at some of the events we’ve been to that run up to our stand and get really excited for the macarons, because they remember how good they were.”

Each day there are five to six different flavors of macarons to choose from — a small sampling of the roughly 270 macaron flavors Zamora has created and served over the years.

Henry’s 3D-printed goods are located on the left of the entryway, in and on top of a large glass display case. Nearby is a stand that sells tea towels and tissue boxes made by his grandmother, and wooden art pieces made by his brother that have been decorated using techniques like fractal wood burning and resin pouring.

Henry’s desk, some large storage shelves and a doorway leading to the store’s kitchen is located to the left of the display case, and beyond that is the area where the 3D printers are housed. There are 10 printers, and they usually run “24 hours a day nonstop” to fulfill orders and create new items to sell.

Shop has plans to offer more

The space along the back wall of the store is still a work in progress, Henry said, but it’s where they would like to provide a space for the children to play Dungeons & Dragons, various trading card games and more.

Achieving that vision is a personal goal of Henry’s, who said that he grew up without access to opportunities like that.

“Not having those sort of opportunities led me into a lot of bad places, and it’s far too easy to take that path,” Henry said. ”I think that if I could’ve learned about Dungeons & Dragons much sooner than I did, or at least something similar, it would have saved me a lot of hassle and a lot of hard lessons-learned. If I can help somebody else avoid that path, then that’s what makes it worth it to me.”

For now, Henry said he’s just happy to provide a space where people can eat, find neat merchandise and be themselves.

“Making a grown adult look like a 5-year-old on Christmas Day after they got what they wanted all year is really where it’s at for me,” Henry said. “It’s not about making a $1 million. I really think that we have safe and a non-judgmental space, and I think that the world, not just Bellefonte, needs more of that — more compassion, less judgment.”

The store is currently open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day, although hours may be subject to change. Updates to the store’s hours, along with any updates on the store in general, can be found on the Lizzy’s Toy Box and Elizabeth Henry’s Facebook pages.