Brewing Bayou Magic: Café au Laits, Beignets, and Princess and the Frog

Disney Tiana Bayou Beignet will bring the Big Easy’s favorite dessert to your mug. This medium-roasted flavored coffee will transport you to the bayou with flavor notes of honey and powdered sugar. Joffrey’s Coffee & Tea Company Ryan’s Thoughts: It’s classified as a medium roast, and that’s how it should be brewed. The flavors are…

The Mardi Gras King Cake: A Delicious Tradition

What is a King Cake, you ask? I can best describe it as a celebratory confection that is similar to a coffee cake-cinnamon roll hybrid covered with sanding sugar in traditional Mardi Gras colors: green, purple, and yellow. There is much debate as to what, if anything, these delicious desserts should be filled with. The…

An Encore Performance of Big Easy Busking

Disclaimer: This review is both a modified version and an expanded upon revisit to a Kickstarter preview I originally wrote for The Geek Girl Project titled “Big Easy Busking: A Nightly Battle of the Bands.” It has been edited to include new photographs of the finished product, my thoughts after owning it for several years…