Gingerbread

Gingerbread has been munched in France since the eleventh century, when the Gingerbread Fair was first held in Paris. The local monks would sell their own gingerbread, shaped into little pigs. This may have been what gave the first Queen Elizabeth the idea of ordering little ginger cakes (the first gingerbread men) to be baked in the shapes of portraits of those she knew. You might like to pursue the same idea.