In the US, it isn’t very uncommon for one to celebrate the anniversary of birth with a delicious and beautiful cake. Remember, the Greeks were the first to celebrate with a cake. Cakes were used when celebrating the birthdays of gods and deities.

You may have often wondered about the people who first came up with the idea of placing candles on the cake and in this case they are the Greeks. The tradition of candles on top of a cake dates back to the Greek god Artemis.

In the middle ages, the English would conceal symbolic items inside the cake. About finders ,their discoveries must reflect their future life.

You will find that things like the coins, rings, and even thimbles baked into the cake.
And has been an important part of birthday celebrations since and the  birthday cake made its way to Western culture in the mid 19th century.

The cutting method is ridden with certain superstitious belies. If the knife touches the bottom, or when pulling the knife from the cake itself there are pieces of cake stuck to the knife, than the birthday person must kiss the nearest person of the opposite sex.

Alot of people generally blow out the candles on their cake and hope for somethinhg special, but, the idea is to really blow them all out at once. 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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