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French Fancies are a colourful favourite of the traditional British tea party and form the centrepiece to many British children's parties.
Little cubes of sponge topped with a dollop of buttercream, covered in fondant and drizzled with icing they are sweet, bright and beloved of the nation's children.
I have read that they were originally called Othello cakes with the name and the colours being inspired by William Shakespeare's plays Othello and As You Like It, with different coloured icings to represent major and memorable characters in the plays. Othello was represented by the chocolate cake, Desdemona the white cake, Iago was coffee, while the fourth and final cake was coloured pink after Rosalind, the highly popular, blushing, aristocratic lead in As You Like It.
I love the pink ones, a preference that seems to be with me from my childhood...as an unbiased adult I would have expected the chocolate one to be my favourite ;)
This listing is for 3 french fancies: 1 chocolate with chocolate drizzles, one pink with white drizzles and one yellow with chocolate drizzles...all in their own little brown "paper" cases.
Designed completely by me.
Made from recycled felt and stuffed with polyfil. Completely hand sewn and stuffed.
Please note that as each fancy is hand cut and sewn, the icing and case may very slightly in each piece.
2 inches or 5 cms tall
2 inches or 5 cms wide
Designed by British Cream Tea
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