I have, though these ones make me want to do more! 😍
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The designs biscuified above can all be found in the William De Morgan Tile Library at Wightwick Manor ‪(@nationaltrust.org.uk & @demorganfoundation.bsky.social‬).

Biscuit flavour: orange, cardamom & vanilla.

All biscuits painted, piped, and glazed by hand.

Yes, that's right. It makes the food colouring gel into a paintable consistency and then evaporates. I haven't tried it on rice paper - an interesting thought!

They're gorgeous! 👏

I’m currently on maternity leave. Biscuit-making opportunities are proving hard to come by, but I should have a couple of new sets to share soon.

If you’d like to see more in the meantime:
- ellahawkins.com
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- Facebook – Ella Makes Cakes

Happy National Biscuit Day 2025! 🍪

I’ll end with some dazzlingly glorious costume design. This summery set pays homage to Alexandra Byrne’s work on the 2020 film adaptation of ‘Emma’.

Almost done! I couldn’t leave out this edible assortment of medieval tiles from the British Museum.

The biscuit recipe was inspired by flavours from the same period: honey, ginger, and clove.

Have you ever had the urge to eat a Roman mosaic? This one (the real one, not the biscuit) was found in London by MOLA archaeologists, and dates from the late 2nd to 3rd century CE.

Things are about to get a bit ancient.

I baked these biscuity sherds on a hemisphere cake tin in an attempt to recreate Ancient Greek pottery fragments in all three dimensions. The originals, dating from c.1600-435 BCE, can be found in the collections of the Ashmolean Museum.

One more bookish set for good measure.

These biscuits are inspired by the weird and wonderful world of medieval illustration.

I always wondered how the gold detailing on book bindings gets added.

One day, I happened upon a photo of all the different book binding tools in the University of Reading's Special Collections conservation workshop. Here are some of them in biscuit form.

Let’s do a bit of literary history next. This set is inspired by early modern books in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and Folger Shakespeare Library collections.

Shakespeare’s First Folio makes three biscuity appearances here. Honourable mentions also to Milton and to Beaumont and Fletcher.

Delftware tiles!

There were hundreds of fabulous examples to choose from in the Victoria & Albert Museum’s online catalogue, but I eventually settled on nine.

These 18th-century ships, shepherds, castles, figures, and flowers brought me joy. I hope they’ll do the same for you, too.

Most of my biscuits get eaten, but I hung on to this one.

The flavour is orange, cardamom, and vanilla, and the design was painted by hand onto royal icing using food colouring gels and vodka.

From Arts & Crafts patterns to medieval archaeology.

These biscuits recreate stained glass fragments found a few years ago in the triforium of Westminster Abbey.

All designs painted onto royal icing by hand using food colouring gels and vodka.

The biscuit (cookie) flavour is based on a Victorian recipe for fig pudding. Ingredients include fig, candied peel, almond & sherry.

All designs painted onto royal icing by hand using food colouring gels and vodka.

The biscuit (cookie) flavour is based on a Victorian recipe for fig pudding. Ingredients include fig, candied peel, almond & sherry.

Biscuit (cookie) flavour: Orange, cardamom & vanilla.

The design is painted onto royal icing by hand using food colouring gels and vodka.

This biscuit was created using the wonderful Special Collections & Archives at Utah State University.