Single Greeting Card - Eat Your Cake and Have It, Too
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:
The original proverb was "you cannot eat your cake and have it too." I guess that didn’t work so well at celebration time, so we changed it up.
And there's probably no more celebration-y sweet than cake. Early Roman wedding goers crumbled dry fruit and nut cake over the bride's head to wish for fertility. Cakes were the territory of the well-to-do, so families of lesser means crumbled grains and corn kernels over their brides.
Stacking sweets as high-as-can-be is also a thing. At European weddings, folks made a pile of small treats over which the bride and groom tried to kiss. Later chefs poured on the sugar to create the croquembouche. And cakes stacked on architectural pillars became the mainstay of weddings in the aspirational Victorian era.
But this kitty doesn’t need a mile-high sweet to celebrate. She’ll just jump on the table to have her cake and eat it, too.