“The Sweet Stuff”: New Crucian Pastry Shop in the Richmond Courtyard

“The Sweet Stuff” is Christiansted’s new Crucian pastry shop crafting coconut, guava and pineapple tarts, Vienna cake, benye, red grout, and many more mouth-watering treats.

The family-owned business is in the bright yellow building on the corner in the Richmond Courtyard. It’s a hop, skip, and jump from the Richmond Post Office and a stone’s throw from Bassin Triangle. Crucian natives Xanthia Jacobs and her daughter Xaia Todmann have been baking since Todmann came home from culinary school. Family and friends gave her a bunch of orders; “I said, ‘Let me help.”’ This was in 2013, Jacobs told the Source.

“I thought about getting my grandmother’s recipes from my aunt in Maryland. I tried the tarts and they came out perfectly. It made me reminisce about when I was a little girl in my grandmother’s kitchen,” Jacobs said. “The Red Grout (and passion fruit) is truly a Crucian delight with five ounces grout and three ounces cream,” Jacobs added.