Since we were in town to deliver the cake we decided to take some time to enjoy the city. It’s Michael’s home town and there are several places we like to visit and enjoy whenever we’re there. The day started, as all days should, with coffee at Cafe Du Monde. More precisely, it started with [...]

A 60th birthday was approaching, we were asked to provide the cake.. With a small catch, it needed delivering to New Orleans.* We were given fairly free reign with this cake, as long as it fed 200 people, tasted good and had a 60s/hippy theme then all was well. Given the delivery requirements we also [...]

Welcome to a new, test idea for Curious Confections. A weekly line up of blogs and articles that have interested us, news pertaining to the community, and anything else we think you might like. Starting off, a brief post from Addie Broyles at Relish Austin with some information on the Farmers Market fiasco happening down [...]

The first known recipe using the term “cupcake” appeared in an American cookbook in 1826, although they were probably made long before then. It became revolutionary because of the short length of time it took to cook, their size meaning that the outside was not burnt before the inside was baked. In recent years the [...]

This past weekend Curious Confections was lucky enough to attend Techmunch, a workshop for food bloggers run by Babette Pepaj of Bakespace, and Jaden Hair of Steamy Kitchen, with the aid of Natanya Anderson of Fete and Feast, being held as part of SXSW Interactive. It was held in the function room of Parkside,a restaurant [...]

But Guinness is most definitely Irish. And of course, with it being St Patrick’s Day today, we had to make something suitable to commemorate it. It is known that St. Patrick was born in Britain to wealthy parents near the end of the fourth century. He is believed to have died on March 17, around [...]

A while back I tasted some of the most delightful bread, a cinnamon craisin bread, that toasted was the most delicious breakfast. Asking nicely for the recipe I was determined to remake it here in the CC kitchens. The original recipe was for a bread machine, so it’s taken a bit of tweaking to get [...]

Do you know what Sunday is? It’s March 14th.. Which on this side of the Atlantic is 3.14, otherwise known as the mathmatical term of Pi.. Yes, I’m a math geek. Did you notice, if you look at 3.14 in a mirror it even looks like it says pie! So, to celebrate Pi day, I [...]

An emblematic dish from Louisiana red beans are traditionally made on Mondays. Some quick research (though I can’t comment on the veracity of  the pages I found the information on, they didn’t cite references!) tells me that this stems from Sundays being pork roast day and Mondays being wash day. While the washing and other [...]