christmas fete cake stall - dickensian theme HELP!

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kethry wrote: »

As requested: Twelfth night cake: the tradition of this cake goes back to the days of the early christian church and beyond. In the middle ages, whoever found the bean in the cake became the "lord of misrule" or "king" for the festivities of twelfth night, with the finder of the pea as his queen. Finding the bean was thought to bring luck. This tradition survived until near the end of the nineteenth century.kethxx

We have something similar here in Spain. The cake is called Rosco de Reyes.
Its a yeast dough I believe, formed into a sausage shape and then curled round into a circle. The top is decorated with 'jewels' ie shapes cut from candied fruit. Each cake contains a small figure of a king and the person who has that, is king for the day and everyeone has to do what they say , there is also a bean in the cake and the person who gets that has to pay for the cake.

Here the main present giving day is 12th night and every town has a Kings procession, where free gifts and sweets are given out to the crowds.

CLARABEL

thank you so much everyone

I've been bullying my class today and now I've made them all promise to help with donations of cakes and biscuits, so i'm feeling a bit better

everyhting here looks ace,

i need more names now..

loving smore and fagins flapjacks,

what shall i call the gingerbread, fairy cakes, mince pies?


ohhhhhh I am pretty worried after all!!!

shimmigirl

Magwitchs mince pies
Pecksniffs mince pies

Barnaby rudge gingerbread
Bleak house gingerbread

Dodgers fairycakes
Tiny Tims fairy cakes