"This is another fine mess you've got me into..." -Tom

The original Velvet Mesquite Honey Cararamel

Year 2010

Linda :"I want to make caramel from mesquite beans and honey."
Tom: "O.K."
Linda: "Great it will be fun! I'll buy the honey and you pick the mesquite beans..oh, by the way watch out for the rattlesnake that I saw out in the yard yesterday."

Untamed Confections is a unique confectionery ~~nightmare~~ dream hatched after a ~~bottle of tequila~~ well developed business plan.

Linda's penchant for unbridled creativity and Tom's inclination for eating anything that is sweet related, well, we created something that people love, and miraculously, Untamed Confections was born! Please enjoy snapshots of our timeline we continue to add more so check back often. Click on photos for more information.

Mesquite Beans

We still hand-harvest our Mesquite Beans.

Harvesting Mesquite Beans

Tom harvesting mesquite beans with one of our original t-shirts in 2012

2010 Cooking Caramel Home Kitchen

After many experiments, we devised a recipe for our Mesquite Honey Caramel.

First Wine Show

This was the first wine show and you can see the transition in our packaging.

2011 Packaging

We started out by cutting the caramel into bars and wrapping them in parchment. We quickly moved to plant-based cello.

2012 Cutting and Wrapping

I did all parts of production during that time. Though Tom tied all of the bags and bars!

2012 Our first bite size bags

Still working out of our home kitchen!

2011 Chocolate!

This was our first hand-tempered honey chocolate bars. We worked to produce something unique. This was our invention! We were ignorant enough to try it out! Trial and a lot of error and yes a few tears!

2011 First Chocolate Bars

These were our first hand-tempered chocolate bars. We were determined to make them with honey.

2012 Salted Desert Tortoise

This was how our tortoises looked in the beginning, We got the hang of tempering with honey and this was something we knew would be delicious! Honey glazed pecans, our honey caramel, Peruvian dark chocolate finished with Fleur de Sel!