Single Greeting Card - Decorated Cakes and Candles
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:
Decorated Cakes and Candles
from the Cats and Cakes Collection
Did you ever notice that some cakes look like castles, and some castles look like cakes?
From Queen Victoria's 300-pound wedding cake to the Wedding Cake House in Maine, look around for connections between cake decoration and architecture. One French chef published a cookbook whose introduction was “a treatise on the five orders of architecture." Those cakes were for viewing, not eating.
And what about the candles? Ancient rituals come into play here, including glowing, rounded cakes dedicated to a moon goddess. The first recorded candled birthday cake celebrated a Moravian minister in 1746 on his 46th birthday, with "Holes made in the Cake according to the Years of the Person’s Age, every one having a candle stuck into it, and one in the Middle." (They drilled the holes first? That must have been one dense cake!) The extra middle candle might have been the lebenslicht, or light of life, which lobbied for another year of living.