San Elizario resident Laura Romero has always enjoyed making cascarones for her children to celebrate at Easter gatherings. But in recent years, Romero has elevated the craft of making a cascaron — an ...

Despite soaring egg prices, Texas shoppers looking for a cascarón, or confetti egg, this Easter won’t have to worry about paying more — at least not this year. Cascarones, the confetti-filled ...

If you've ever had a brightly colored eggshell cracked over your head and suddenly found yourself covered in confetti – congratulations. You've been showered by a cascarón. The colorful, ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.— It's said that whoever has a cascarón cracked over their head will be the recipient of good fortune. And sometimes you can create your own magic—like Elodia Alcaraz— better ...

The use of confetti at Santa Barbara parades and festivals is growing, in both the number of events where confetti is used and the volume of confetti tossed, according to the city. While confetti eggs ...

SAN ANTONIO – Maureen Berryman is a Night in Old San Antonio Cascarones Committee volunteer, a tradition she started doing with her mother 35 years ago. “I was raised with them, and we grew up, you ...

When it comes to Easter, maybe you're being dragged to church with your family or maybe you're focused on painting eggs for the kiddos to hunt in the yard. If you're mischievous, maybe you're sneaking ...

And there’s no stopping her. For the past 42 years, Adelaida Mendez has sold cascarone — confetti-filled eggs — along State Street during Santa Barbara’s Old Spanish Days Fiesta celebration. Her eggs ...

For Gloria Lemos, a 65-year-old grandmother living in Pasco, Wash., the family tradition of cracking cascarones over relatives' heads at Easter brings back fond childhood memories of running, laughing ...