What Can I Do With My Coat of Arms? Part 14 - In the Kitchen

The kitchen has often been called "The Heart of the Home". Is it also a place where you can find uses for your coat of arms and/or crest?

I hope to give you a few inspirational ideas about that today. For example:

Cakes baked in the kitchen have often been used as a way to display one's heraldry. Examples of such range from the fairly simple to the quite complex, as you will see in the examples below:

(This last was the christening cake of Princess Maria-Carolina of Bourbon Two Sicilies, now the Duchess of Calabria and Duchess of Palermo, back in November 2003.)

Of course, it's not just the cake itself that might be a display of heraldry, as in this example:

I can only assume that the armored knight, above and in detail below, is there to help prevent any early noshing on that cake.

And what else gets baked in the kitchen and could also serve as a display of heraldry?

That's right, cookies! Either plain ...

... or frosted.

They don't all have to be decorated with real coats of arms, either. The examples below have been used to teach some basic blazon terms in a fun, and delicious, way.

And finally, we come to another tasty way of displaying heraldry: Chocolates!

Cakes, and cookies, and chocolates, oh, my! Okay, now I'm hungry!

Next time, we'll look into a room that is usually kitchen-adjacent and see how heraldry can be used there. See you in the dining room!