Yvonne’s Southern Sweets, the 19-year-old Bayview bakery known for its sugar cookies, 7-Up cake, peach cobbler and butter pecan cookies, reopened this past Wednesday. It was a long time coming: The store, located at 5128 Third St., first closed in January of this year when the building next door burned down, damaging the bakery.
After a soft reopening on May 31, during which Mayor Daniel Lurie raved about the sugar cookies and owner Yvonne Hines sold out of every single baked good in the shop, Hines was ready to get back to business. Then, while dropping off her daughter at college in June, she received more bad news: Someone had vandalized the bakery’s front window.
“I felt violated and hurt,” said Hines after the break-in. “I’m just a little bakery, 400 square feet,” she continued. Since the shop had been closed, there was no register filled with money…