What is the first thing that comes to one’s mind when we mention about cakes? Of course, it is birthday. This is the word that has been related to cakes and is going hand in hand for a long, long time. We cannot actually imagine birthday occasions without a cake. Isn’t it? It feels incomplete when you do not cut a cake on your birthday. So, we cannot ignore cakes on this particular occasion. In fact, one cannot deny the extreme happiness they get by cutting a birthday cake on their special day. They cannot ignore the fact that cutting a cake along with friends and family makes them feel special. It makes you feel that though you grow old, you grow to the good.
Birthday cakes have come a long way…
Yes, it really has come a long way. One can even trace the presence of birthday cakes in ancient Greece and Rome. At that time, celebrating a birthday was not a day to day usual event. People at that time used to celebrate an emperor’s birthday or a temple’s birthday. It was used to be a grand event only. At that time, birthday cakes were prepared with honey, grated cheese, flour and olive oil. Some people have a different story to tell though. They believe that in Germany only Jesus birthday was celebrated by making sweet dough, which was shaped like a baby Jesus in shabby clothes. From this concept, birthday cakes took birth. Later, people started to celebrate the birth of every child on earth by cutting a cake on their special day.
Myth goes on…
There are some typical yet amazing stories that revolve around birthday cakes. In 19th century England, funny things were put into the cake dough like coins and thimbles. After the cake cutting ceremony, when the pieces were distributed, it was seen who got the coin and who got the thimble. The one who the coin would become rich and the other who received a thimble would never marry. Now, these facts are fun which people love to believe when they are having a blast together. Nothing much truth lies into it.
Birthday Flames
When you cut a cake on your birthday, you never forget to blow the candle first and make a wish. Do you? Well, this also has a story within. In ancient times, people used to pray on flames in an open fire. They believed that the smoke carried their wishes up to the God. Now people say that if one can blow all the candles together in one breath, then all their wishes will come true.
Whether you are going to bake a birthday cake or opt for cake delivery, the choices that lie before you are innumerable. The flavours that are available are plenty. One can add more decorations with whipped creams, fruits and other chocolate toys to their birthday cakes to make it look more special. Birthdays are special and so are the birthday cakes.
