it is very common for you to celebrate your birthday with a wonderfully designed and tasty birthday cake.
Remember, the Greeks were the first to celebrate with a cake. It was usually used when the birthdays of the gods and goddesses were celebrated.
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. It was because if the Greek god Artemis, where the cake was first topped with lit candles.
In the middle ages, the English would conceal symbolic items inside the cake. Each item was a prediction for the finder’s future.
There are many different things that can be baked into cakes: coins, rings, and thimbles.
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 certain superstitions that are believed to be relating to the way the cake is cut. 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. It is belief that wish come true if the candles are blown out in one blow and at the same time wisher keeps the secret wish.
Using different kinds of colored flowers and balloons usually a birthday cake is arranged. A popular kid’s cake topper is their favorite cartoon character.
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.
