Cakes with candles and wrapped presents, in pasta. Pastabilities cuts the shapes from 100% durum wheat and colours them with tomato and beet powder rather than dye, which is why the bag mixes cream shapes with deep maroon ones. Boil them, drain them, and the shapes still read as cakes and presents on the plate, which is the entire point at a birthday table.

Fourteen ounces in the bag, four to six servings as a main and six to eight as a side, with 7 g of protein in a two ounce serving. There is no cheese packet and no seasoning sachet in here: it is plain pasta, so it takes butter and parmesan, or a jar of marinara, or whatever the birthday person has asked for. The panel carries Kosher Certified, All Natural, Non GMO and Made in the USA. Pastabilities has been making pasta with personality in Nashville for decades.