Blowing out birthday candles is fun, but your spit is the icing on the cake — quite literally. Scientists say that puckering up and making a wish sends varying amounts of bacteria flying onto ...

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Maybe your birthday wish was to be able to eat your candles. It just came true.

Some believe that the tradition of birthday candles began in Ancient Greece, when people brought cakes adorned with lit candles to the temple of Artemis, goddess of the hunt.

The equally hilarious and heart-wrenching play Birthday Candles threads together the protagonist Ernestine’s birthdays from 17 to 101, celebrated with her mother’s golden butter cake, five ...

Birthday Candles, Noah Haidle’s Broadway dramedy starring Debra Messing as a woman who, over the course of the play’s 90 minutes ages from 17 to 107, has just about all the right ingredients ...

Those colorful candles burning brightly atop a cake may look lovely, but it turns out blowing them out has some pretty disgusting side effects.

In emotionally rich ‘Birthday Candles,’ a woman shapes her identity as she bakes her annual cake Kate Fry, playing the heroine of the Northlight Theatre play from youth to centenarian, makes ...

A woman’s spontaneous gesture at a restaurant — inviting a little boy to blow out her birthday candles — became a viral moment and a memory two families will never forget.

THIS is the terrifying moment an elderly nan was almost set on fire after her family crammed her birthday cake with blazing 95 candles. The clip starts off with the grandma beaming with joy as a do… ...

Lisa Vanderpump holds her grandson Teddy, 2, as she blows out her birthday candles in a cute photo. Vanderpump's daughter Pandora shares Teddy with husband Jason Sabo.