Birthday Cake facts

Beutifully designed and tasty birthday cake is very common in the US for your birthday celebration. Keep in mind, it was the Greeks that were the first to make a cake for celebration. It was commonly used in the celebrations of the birthdays for gods and goddesses.

If you were pondering on who decided to put candles on the top of the cakes- it was the Greeks who came up with that idea too. Because if the Greek god Artemis, where the cake was topped with lighted candles.

the English would conceal symbolic items inside the cake.
Each thing predicted something in the future of the finder.

You will be surprised with coins, rings and thimbles hidden in the cakes.
The Western culture got introduced to the birthday cake in the mid 19th century and since then the birthday cake has played important role in the birthday celebrations.

There are some who believe superstitions related to the way it is cut. If the knife touches the bottom, or when you pull the knife on the cake itself there are pieces of cake stuck to the knife, the person must embrace the anniversary nearest person of the opposite sex.

The trick to blowing out your candles on a birthday cake and making a wish is to blow them all out. When someone blows out the candles on a birthday cake, it is believed that if they make a wish, keep it a secret, and all the candles go out in one blow, the wish will come true.

Using different kinds of colored flowers and balloons usually a birthday cake is arranged. For children, it is a popular idea for them to have cartoon characters or other popular things on their cakes.

Because some birthday cakes can cost up to a couple hundred dollars, people will often make their own, or bake one from a package instead. 

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