Cyndi Babin still remembers her first cake. It was for her son Ryan’s first birthday, and it was a big, blue likeness of Cookie Monster.
“Of course, we were doing everything from Wilton cook books back then,” she said. “Now I can just look things up on Pinterest and make anything.”
Babin and her baking have come a long way in these past 28 years, from birthday party mom to business owner to one of the most sought-after wedding cake bakers in the region with a shop right in downtown New Ipswich.
Now, she’s reopened the popular Wildflowers bakery in a new location, 76 Turnpike Road — in a building built by her son, adjacent to her home.
“It’s a treacherous walk in the winter,” she joked, “but my Jeep doesn’t move. Now it’s just a matter of having people find [the new location].”
Babin hopes for some drop-in traffic and a whole lot of baking for events, cupcakes and cakes for weddings, parties and so on, as elaborate as the client wants.
“I pretty much say yes to everything,” Babin said. “I say yes and then I figure out how to do it … Sometimes when I leave and I get that picture and I’m all done and I can breathe, it’s like ‘Wow.’ I love seeing the posts from people afterwards at the wedding, it’s pretty exciting. Especially when I know them.”
Babin will take on a special project this spring to bring her baking career full circle – the cake for Ryan’s upcoming wedding.
“He’s a builder so he’s building some type of elaborate stand for it,” Babin said. “It will be fun, I’m excited.”