Nibbles: Meet Lafayette’s ‘cheesecake whisperer,’ serving 160 flavors and plenty of hugs

Nibbles: Meet Lafayette’s ‘cheesecake whisperer,’ serving 160 flavors and plenty of hugs

Customers who manage to find the front door to Cherry’s Cheesecakes & Delights discover a source of artisan baked goods. They’re also lucky enough to encounter Cherry Shuler, the shop’s owner and guiding light.  On a recent October morning, which happened to be her birthday, Shuler was a smiling bundle of energy in the open kitchen, bustling from a simmering pot of kolache glaze to decorating a full-sized cheesecake. As she talks, a stream of re…