Dangerous Minds has a nice sketch of Frozen Charlottes, nineteenth-century dolls that, as they put it, "slept in coffins and were baked in cakes".
The dolls cost a penny and were insanely popular—some being sold with their very own coffin and blanket-cum-shroud. In Britain these dolls were often baked into a pudding or cake as a fun surprise for children to discover—or more likely break their teeth on—at Christmastime.
Like a morbid king cake.
Coffins like so:
Note the disturbing, Victorian-era moralizing in this one:
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