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 usually used when the birthdays of the gods and goddesses were celebrated.

For those who were wondering who came up with placing candles on the cake, well, it was the Greeks as well. It was because if the Greek god Artemis, where the cake was first topped with lit candles.

Mid-age England saw the practice of hiding curios within the cakes Each item was a prediction for the finder’s future.

You will be surprised with coins, rings and thimbles hidden in the cakes.
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.

There are some superstitions that believe pertaining to the way it is cut. It does not matter whether the knife touches the bottom of the cake or when pulling out the knife from the cake, the cake gets cut into pieces; what matters is that the birthday person must have a kiss with the nearest person of the opposite sex.

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. If the candles are blown out in one blow and the wisher keeps the wish a secret, then it is believed the wish will come true.

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.

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.