Biscuit (cookie) flavour: Earl Grey and Yorkshire Lavender
Decoration: Royal icing base. All designs painted onto royal icing by hand using food colouring gels, edible lustres, and vodka.
Context: Inspired by the British Library’s wonderful collections, and created to celebrate the Library’s 50th birthday.
Each biscuit depicts an item from one of the British Library’s six core collection areas: stamps, newspapers, manuscripts, printed materials, maps, and sounds.
Moving clockwise from the top left of the set, the collection items depicted include:
- The 1918 24 cents ‘inverted Jenny’ stamp
- The Lady’s Newspaper (1847-1863)
- The title page for The Tempest in Shakespeare’s First Folio
- Wax cylinder casing from the British Library’s Sounds collection
- The 11th-century world map known as the Cotton Mappa Mundi
- Lewis Carroll’s original illustrated manuscript for Alice’s Adventures Under Ground (which later became Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)
You can find out more about these items here.