Blowing out candles on a birthday cake. Blah! You'd think this wretched ritual would have disappeared long ago, especially once Covid made its appearance. But people are still doing it. Furthermore, ...

Breaking news: It seems I've gotten old. I knew it would happen, just not this soon. The subject came up because tomorrow is my birthday. (With the number of candles required my birthday cake might ...

Ah, birthdays: the best day of the year, when you get to spit all over a cake baked in your honor and force all of your closest friends to eat it with a smile on their faces. Then, a few months back ...

The post Woman Refused To Light Her Baby’s Birthday Cake Candle For Safety Reasons, But Her Mom Kept Insisting That The ...

Editor’s note: A recent experiment at Clemson University examined the potential spread of bacteria from people blowing out candles on birthday cakes. We all look forward to that one day a year when ...

As a small child, I remember attending other children’s birthday parties at our local roller rink or McDonald’s and thinking, “Eww, I don’t want to eat that cake that some other kid essentially just ...

Pumpkin spice, ginger, apple, cranberry clove... All the perfect fall flavors come together in these candle cakes. Psst - you can actually light them ON FIRE!To make my Candle Cakes, I began by making ...

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 Food ...