HelenD123 said:
I think my Grandma had a special coconut pyramid mould with a plunger at the top to push the pyramid out of the cone.
oh, how posh!
Actually, we had (were given, it wasn't the sort of thing we would have bought) some rather poncy 'petit four' makers - each was a tube, the cross section of which was the shape of a heart, club, spade or diamond, with a plunger to match. You were meant to layer bread and flavoured stuff (marmite, jam etc) or cake and jam up to the right height and use the tube to cut out the shapes, and then the plunger to push them out. Oh, I think you stuck a cocktail stick down the middle too. I think you were meant to alternate brown and white bread, to create stripes.
One of our birthday party regulars was pinwheel sandwiches. Get an unsliced loaf, and slice it lengthways (not across like normal) and remove crusts. Spread with butter or marg and then filling - something smooth, like marmite or meat paste - and then roll up the slice like a swiss roll. Wrap in foil, refridgerate, and just before required, unwrap and slice into rounds, each of which will have a spiral of filling. Not only could you eat loads of these (like any buffet food, you just kept on and on grazing), but you got to eat the cut off crusts when they were being prepared....
Blimey, I'm hungry now!