Our good friends at the Austin Astronomical Society once more got their holiday party cake from us. It’s such a pleasure to get repeat customers like this, although it does mean we have to constantly strive to top last year’s cake! As before, they had a butter cake with our English buttercream, a nice simple [...]

Being a native of Southern Louisiana, naturally I have several staple recipes from that region that I cook semi-regularly, learned at my mother’s knee — one being chicken and sausage gumbo.  And much to my mother’s dismay, I’m going to give that recipe up at the end of this post.  *grins* A gumbo is a [...]

Marshmallows don’t usually generate a lot of fuss.  They’re typically something most folks buy by the cheap bagful at the mega-mart, and never think twice about.  To these folks I say this: if you’ve never had a fresh, handmade marshmallow, you’ve never given your inner child a hug. The texture is tremendously better, the flavors [...]

Last week, I talked about the relative ease, enjoyment, and benefits of making your own sodas.  I also shared the process of making a dandelion and burdock soda (a relative stranger to these shores, but an old friend to the English), a combination of many ingredients that yields a delicious, mildly sarsaparilla flavor with citrus-y [...]

As I’ve stated in the past, we at Curious Confections are “makers”.  We like creating many of the things we enjoy, using our own two hands, and possibly learning new things along the way.  It’s not always the quickest or simplest route, but more often than not the quality of our labors takes us by [...]

Jell-O shots — not just for Halloween, but typically part of our adult libations for the party every year — used to be a staple of college parties for decades, trays of little paper or plastic cups filled with candy-colored jewels of gelatin passed around the room.  To be honest, they still are a college [...]

With a title like that you’d think I was shouting at people in traffic, but no, I’m just continuing with showing off some of our Halloween creations… a little after the fact.  *grins* First up is a deliciously disturbing creation called a MeatHead, where sliced meats of your choice can be presented in a suitably [...]

For the last time I’m back to continue the month-long series on homebrewing in honor of National Homebrew Day which was May 7th.  In previous posts we performed the actual brewing, and then after allowing the beer to complete its primary fermentation we transferred to to a secondary fermentation vessel to clean up after itself [...]

Once more I’m back to continue the month-long series on homebrewing in honor of National Homebrew Day which was May 7th.  In previous posts we performed the actual brewing, and then after allowing the beer to complete its primary fermentation we transferred to to a secondary fermentation vessel to clean up after itself and begin [...]