Download or read book Cakes and Characters written by Bridget Ann Henisch and published by Prospect Books. This book was released on 1984 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the development, flowering, and decline of celebrations at Twelfth Day that involved an elaborately decorated cake and a lighthearted game of chance. This lost English custom flourished in the first part of the nineteenth century and was chronicled by Dickens, Thackeray, and others. Includes recipes.