Single Greeting Card - Cake Stands
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:
Cake Stands
from the Cats and Cakes Collection
Pedestal plates, dessert stands, riser plates, salvers... these dishes helped cakes rise above the fray at the 18th and 19th century table. Some early salvers revolved, while others included music boxes for a little extra culinary theater.
Cake plates became especially popular with the affordability of 19th century pressed glass, including the "hobnail glass" that you can see under my cat’s sugary cupcake. The raised knobs resemble the hobnails used on some boot soles.
Stacked cake stands led to a new idea: a ready-made, three-tiered design that you can still nab for a few bucks at TJ Maxx. A 1927 etiquette book suggested that when a hostess’s maid is not on the clock, “one of the tiny tiered stands... prove[s] most convenient and enables her to pass three or four things at once to her guests."