In the US, it isn’t very uncommon for one to celebrate the anniversary of birth with a delicious and beautiful cake. Remember that it was the ancient Greeks that started the practice of celebrating with cake. 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.

In the middle ages, the English would conceal symbolic items inside the cake. Each item was a prediction for the finder’s future.

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 scratches the bottom, or when just taking the knife away from the cake by itself there are bits of cake clinging to the knife, and the birthday person has to give a kiss to the closest person of the opposite gender.

While making a wish, many of us will pucker our lips and blow the flames atop the \candles on our cakes.  However, what we want to do is blow out every single candle. 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.

Usually a birthday cake is decorated and covered with lots of flowers and balloons of bright colors. It is a popular choice of the kids to have their cartoon characters or their favorite ones on the cake.

You would come to know that many a people would love to make their own cake or bake a semi-home cake taken from a package and the reason for the same is that the birthday cake can cost to the tune of few hundred dollars.