Looking for that perfect wedding cake?
Planning a party and need an assortment of tasty pastries?
Has your sweet tooth been nagging you all day for something with chocolate and cream?
You’ll find the delicious answers to all these questions at Sweet and Savory Bake Shop located at 9 S. Washington, right in the heart of downtown Oxford.
Owned by Royal Oak residents Scott Eschelbach and Debbie Meyers, the primary focus of Sweet and Savory is creating wedding cakes, European tortes and individual and miniature pastries.
Eschelbach is a Culinary Arts graduate of Oakland Community College with 15 years experience as pastry chef. Meyers has 20 years experience as a pastry chef.
The chefs worked together for the last 10 years at the Holiday Market in Royal Oak.
Their specialty is wedding cakes, which were voted #1 by Detroit News and Free Press taste panels when the pair worked at the Holiday Market.
So what’s their secret?
Besides an abundance of talent in the kitchen, the chefs use only the freshest, finest ingredients.
For instance, in their butter cream, they use Plugra ? a European butter with 25 percent less water ? which results in a ‘much creamier product.?
For chocolate, they use Callebaut from Belgium, which is made from ‘very fine? cocoa beans.
‘We tend to spend more on ingredients but the higher price is justified by the quality,? Eschelbach and Meyers said. ‘Our motto is quality in, quality out.?
Besides weddings, the chef also create cakes for graduations, birthdays, anniversaries and bridal and baby showers.
Sweet and Savory offers ‘personalized service? when it comes to their cakes.
‘We sit down with people and go over every detail of how they want their cake from the ingredients to the design,? Eschelbach and Meyers said. ‘We offer many choices so they can build and create exactly what they want.?
The chefs boast that they can copy by hand almost any design on their cakes.
A special 10-percent-off any wedding or graduation cake for 2003 is available on Page B4 of the Progress section.
Sweet and Savory also offers a wide variety of individual (single serving) and miniature pastries.
The pastry collection includes fresh fruit tartlets, cannolis, eclairs, raspberry linzers, chocolate and white chocolate mousse cups, key lime tartlets, cream puffs, assorted mini cheesecakes, lemon curd tartlets, walnut rum brownies, hazelnut ganache tarts and pastel tulip cups with raspberry mousse.
Some of their other specialties include lemon and strawberry shortcakes and ‘tuxedo cake,? which is marble cake with chocolate mousse and vanilla Bavarian cream.
Cheesecake lovers will find such delectable flavors as vanilla bean, mixed berry, Oreo and ‘Turtle,? which is chocolate chunk with caramel and pecans.
Kids love the ‘Little Mice? individual pastries, which consist of a cookie base with a cake body, a butter cream head and almond ears. The mice come in four flavors ? chocolate raspberry, chocolate peanut butter, cherry chip and white chocolate cherry chip.
For those who crave something sweet in the morning, Sweet and Savory offers a variety of breakfast pastries including cherry and apple turnovers, 8 different flavors of Danish twists, 5 different kinds of strudels and 4 flavors of bear claws.
Every morning customers can pair a 16-ounce coffee (from the Pontiac-based Superior Coffee) with any breakfast pastry for $2.
From the sweet we go to the savory. The bake shop offers soups of the day ? such as corn chowder and broccoli and cheese ? served with a piece of fresh focaccia bread. Daily quiche specials and sandwiches will be added soon.
Sweet and Savory also stocks bread from the Sourdough Bread Factory in Pontiac and ‘real French bread.?
Local delivery, custom-made gift baskets, gourmet jams, greeting cards by local artists and wrapping paper are also available.
Sweet and Savory is open 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday; 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and closed Sunday and Monday.
Look for store hours to be extended when the remodeling is complete.
For more information call (248) 628-4210.