| How can we forget the most memorable day of | | | | bread with dough and was shaped with baby |
| our lives, our birthdays. This special day is a once | | | | Jesus for commemorating his birth day. |
| a year celebration of our very existence. But it | | | | Eventually, this evolved in Germany and a |
| would not be perfectly complete if a birthday | | | | birthday cake became a traditional symbol of any |
| cake is not present, right? More than just the | | | | young child's birthday. In comparison, birthday |
| attractiveness that adds color to your birthday, it | | | | cakes in England were often baked with symbolic |
| is a traditional symbol of a birthday to most | | | | and precious objects placed inside. To do this, |
| people wherever and whoever they may be. Yet, | | | | items such as thimbles and coins were combined |
| have you ever thought about where and how | | | | into the batter when making birthday cakes in |
| everything started and people began to have | | | | Medieval times. Most of the people within that |
| birthday cakes? Wouldn't it be interesting to find | | | | period believed that whoever got the coin would |
| out its origin? I think so, let us get started. | | | | be rich but if you ended up unlucky enough to get |
| Originally, the tradition began in the early years of | | | | the thimble, you would be going to be an old maid. |
| ancient Greece. Yes, it really was that long ago! It | | | | In the present day, this is still evident to some |
| was started when the Ancient Greeks used to | | | | folks when they put small things, such as candies |
| make breads and honey cakes for celebrations. | | | | or fake coins to decorate the top of a cake. |
| Then, in ancient Rome, Romans celebrated their | | | | Others, place candles on birthday cakes for |
| birthdays in three different ways: a private type | | | | different reasons, either to bring or to pray |
| of celebration which was with friends and family, | | | | birthday wishes to God, just to accessorize, to |
| temple and city festivals which were celebrated | | | | count the age of the person, or simply for the |
| as a birthday, and birthdays of the past as well as | | | | purpose of blowing them out to make wishes |
| present emperors or rulers of a royal or imperial | | | | come true! |
| family and its members which were marked by | | | | Today, cakes have numerous functions that cater |
| celebrating with the baking and eating of honey | | | | for different purposes but still birthday |
| cakes. | | | | celebrations are the main purpose of baking a |
| Then, for other countries and races birthday | | | | special cake. It has become the overall symbol of |
| cakes started to become popular in the Middle | | | | having and celebrating a birthday in our world |
| Ages. In Germany, it became their tradition to | | | | today. |
| have cakes that looked like a sweetened type of | | | | |