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In the US it is very common for you to celebrate your birthday with a wonderfully designed and tasty birthday cake. Keep in mind, it was the Greeks that were the first to make a cake for celebration. Cakes were used when celebrating the birthdays of gods and deities.

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. The tradition of candles on top of a cake dates back to the Greek god Artemis.

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 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 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.

The trick to blowing out your candles on a birthday cake and making a wish is to blow them all out. 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.

For the most part, a birthday cake is embellished with many flowers and colorful balloons in vibrant colors. For kids, it is popular to have cartoon characters or their favorite them 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.