Amanda Rickman, a graduate of the pastry school at Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts, is planning the grand opening of the Wild Flour Cakery Boutique on Thursday. (Photo by David White)
STAFF REPORT
Two granddaughters of one of Hays County’s most esteemed couples hope their sweet tooth, baking know-how and design prowess are the right ingredients for Buda’s newest business.
Sisters Amanda Rickman and Lindsey Finlay, along with Rickman’s mother-in-law Lee Rickman, are set to mark the grand opening of their Wild Flour Cakery and Boutique on Thursday.
Amanda Rickman, a pastry school graduate, said the company will offer high-end custom cakes, cupcakes, cake balls and other pastries, as well as breakfast items such as coffee and kolaches made with Austin-based Hudson’s Sausage.
“The cake balls are a hit,” said Rickman, who said she learned to make them as the first employee at Austin Cake Ball. “I just made them because I know how.”
Finlay also provides custom invitations, logos and other designs.
The sisters’ grandfather is D.J. “Red” Simon, the car dealer and namesake of a Hays CISD middle school.
Their late grandmother, Louise Simon, was a co-author of the definitive historical books “Clear Springs and Limestone Ledges, a History of San Marcos and Hays County,” as well as “Kyle and Its Surrounding Communities,” a collaboration with local historian Gene Johnson.
The sisters are graduates of Hays High School.
