Facts about Birthday Cakes
it is very common for you to celebrate your birthday with a wonderfully designed and tasty birthday cake.
Just think, the Greeks were the very first to create a cake in order to celebrate their achievements. It was commonly used in the celebrations of the birthdays for gods and goddesses.
If you are thinking about who actually developed the idea of putting candles on the cake, the answer is the Greeks. The tradition of candles on top of a cake dates back to the Greek god Artemis.
In medieval times, the British baked meaningful things into this cake. Each of the item was a prediction for the future of the finder.
There are many different things that can be baked into cakes: coins, rings, and thimbles.
The birthday cake made its way to Western culture in the mid 19th century and has been an important part of birthday celebrations since.
There are some who believe superstitions related to the way it 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.
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.
Usually a birthday cake is decorated and covered with lots of flowers and balloons of bright colors. For kids, it is popular to have cartoon characters or their favorite them on the cake.
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.
