Whether you're an aspiring baker or looking for inspiration for your own birthday cake, these must-see decorating ideas give the dessert an extra special look.

Those colorful candles burning brightly atop a birthday cake may look lovely, but apparently blowing them out has some pretty disgusting side effects, researchers say. A study in the Journal of ...

Nice burn! An 80-foot-long sponge cake completely covered with flaming birthday candles puts all your Grandma-is-so-old jokes to shame. CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop ...

However, the birthday cake and burning candles was an all-day affair. The candles were lit in the morning — but they could not be blown out, and the cake could not be enjoyed until after dinner.

Despite that the Romans had dipped candles made from tallow going all the way back to around the 5th century BCE, it does not appear that they put candles on the birthday cakes, however.

But with COVID-19 turning us all into a bunch of germaphobes (rightly so), it’s now impossible to brush off that horrid little study from 2017 that found blowing out birthday candles increases ...

They come in milk and dark chocolate in packs of three, and they’re printed with whimsical patterns to match your birthday cake. The candles have a short, fast-burning wick, which lasts just ...

A viral video making its way round the web, Romney is presented with a cake for his 72nd birthday complete with burning candles and staffers ready to sing to him.

This Is Why You Should NEVER Use Sparklers As Birthday Candles. ... in lieu of birthday candles on their pal's cake, ... wouldn't really stop burning until they totally ruined the cake.