Armagh, Northern Ireland has been a recurring project with visits over three years covering costume Parade at St Patrick’s day. Working with the local council arts department, we were invited to produce a ‘twelfth night cake’ to be integral to the Georgian Christmas fair celebrations. Historically, Armagh is a fine example of Georgian architecture and town planning and consequently a varied social past with contemporary relevance. Even the nature of twelfth night party etiquette follows a distinct pattern of hierarchy, resulting in the cake being a symbolic royal decoration. For our interest, the reference to the King of the bean and the Queen of the pea denotes a pagan basis, and very much a carnival theme relating to mummery by the denomination of the stock characters of the party. Shakespeare’s play of twelfth night definitely uses Arcadia and fantastic character, clowns and lovers. On the day, the cake became a roulette wheel with hidden boxes, children picked either a bean or a pea and dressed accordingly whether boy or girl. The king or Queen, once robed, were paraded to the musical accompaniment of the muppets theme tune and a cacophony of horns, bells, drum and kazoo, once we stopped laughing.