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Well, good and bad problem, huh?  Thanks to all of you who hit the site.  The Food Network even caught HostGator off guard as we had pre-warned them of the expected spike in traffic.  As our web developers are hard at work rebuilding the cart and stabilizing the web store, please feel free to shoot [...]

See Holy Cacao debut on the Food Network tonight, 7/12/2010 at 7PM Central. The show, “Kid in a Candy Store” is hosted by Adam Gertler. The episode, “Take the Cake” features businesses around the country that have done something out of the ordinary with cake. Adam became interested in us for our Cake Balls on [...]

David Ansel is widely known in Austin as the Soup Peddler for his business of soup delivery via bicycle.  He is also widely recognized as one of Austin’s top bloggers and writers on the subject of food.  He has recently posted a story to Edible Austin that I’m sure many of you will enjoy.  It [...]

Don’t act like you didn’t know this would be coming at some point.  Our energetic, tirelessly baking and ever-passionate-about-their-balls staff has come up with yet another inventive treat for you.  Co-created by Jessica Zimmerman and Cait Ellison, we invite you to try our Flamingo Balls.  The ladies wanted to call them Pink Flamingo Balls, but [...]

Howdy all!  This may be a short notice but if you are looking for something fun to do today, come on down to the South Austin Trailer Park & Eatery and Holy Cacao.   Mo Rocca (The Daily Show, CBS Sunday Morning, and more) and a new show for the Cooking Channel, Foodography, will be in [...]

For me growing up, a child of the 70′s, there was one defining story of chocolate…Willy Wonka.  Ever since then, Gene Wilder has been one of my favorite actors.  Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silver Streak, etc. are movies that I can watch without fatigue.  It’s so perfect that Ellen and I ended up starting our [...]

Ok, while it’s true that we cannot claimed to have invented these, our Holy Cacao teammate, Jessica Zimmerman, has created our version.  Inspired by our latest frustrations with local business owners trying to influence the government to police their competition, our best response comes from food.  In the words of Issac Hayes, “Suck on my [...]

Hopefully, it is permanent.  As the Chair of the Health & Human Services Committee, Randi Shade pointed out, “This is a rogue verses non-rogue trailer problem”.  Amen sister!  The problem that continues to be pointed out by Mr. Ramsey’s fleet of lawyers originate with people who are currently NOT operating within the system.  New laws [...]

Well, for those of you who did not read Juan Castillo’s piece in the Austin American Statesman this morning, you can do so here.   The fact is there is a LOT more to the story than he printed, or than I will write here.  But here goes a brief summary: Tom Ramsey of Snappy Snacks [...]

We’ve been asked by many people why we choose Blue Bell Ice Cream.  After all, aren’t there other local ice cream manufacturers that we could choose from, we are asked?  Indeed there are.  However, Blue Bell Ice Cream has a rich (pun intended) history of supporting small businesses.  Dating back over 103 years they have [...]