Single Greeting Card - Cupcakes
4.25 x 5.5" (A2 size)
Kraft brown bag envelope with coordinating liner
Blank inside
Supporting sustainability: 100% recycled post-consumer waste card and envelope; 30% post-consumer waste envelope liner; commercially compostable plastic sleeve.
You don't need a birthday to love a cat and a cake. Our cat will accept cake (or bread, or pizza crust) any day of the week. He was a stray before he found us and we like to think he braved the elements by stationing himself outside a bakery for crumbs and nibbly bits.
Each Cats and Cakes card includes curious cake-related historical discoveries on the back.
Text on the back of this card:
Cupcakes
from the Cats and Cakes Collection
Most agree that the cupcake is an American invention, though there is a British counterpart (the fairy cake) that’s smaller and without our supersized "wodge" of thick frosting.
A 1796 American cookbook mentions "cake to be baked in small cups" — likely ceramic ramekins or even teacups. Some speculate that "cup" refers to the "1234 cake" recipe which measured ingredients by volume instead of weight (one cup butter, two cups sugar, three cups flour, four eggs). By the next century there were more standard measures, eliminating the discrepancy between my dollop and yours.
Hostess sold its first CupCake in 1919 (sans filling and squiggly piping, which came 30 years later). And the first paper liners were manufactured on artillery shell machines that were unused after the world wars.
My family splits the cake in half horizontally, puts the bottom onto the top, and enjoys a frosting sandwich.