Biscuit (cookie) flavour: Almond and orange, taken from an eighteenth-century recipe for Ratafia-Cakes
Decoration: Royal icing base. All designs painted onto royal icing by hand using food colouring gels and vodka.
Context: Inspired by trade cards from eighteenth-century London. Moving clockwise from the top left:
- James Reynolds – Haberdasher (c. 1750, British Museum)
- John Lockington – Engraver, Hair Worker & Toy Manufacturer (c. 1733-69, Lewis Walpole Library)
- Elizabeth Bagwell – Linen Draper (c. 1750, British Museum)
- Owen & Cox – Cabinet Makers & Upholsterers (c. 1790-6, British Museum)