A birthday cake had lit candles around it, with each candle representing a year of the celebrant’s life. The celebrant blows ...

Centuries ago, candles were used to mark the years a child had been alive, plus more in the hope of a long life to come. Over time, putting candles on birthday cakes spread beyond children’s ...

A viral video of a man extinguishing his cake’s candles by hand has many of us questioning if we should put an end to the long-time tradition of spitting blowing out our own birthday candles. In ...

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 ...

An 80-foot-long sponge cake completely covered with flaming birthday candles puts all your Grandma-is-so-old jokes to shame. 72,000 candles on birthday cake sets a new world record - CNET X ...

In 2017, a widely circulated study (unappetizingly titled “Bacterial Transfer Associated With Blowing Out Candles on a Birthday Cake”) revealed that “blowing out the candles over the icing ...

A new study revealed that blowing out birthday candles increases bacteria on the cake by 1,400 percent, which is downright disgusting if you’re a germophobe.. So even though it’s one of the ...

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 long ...

Talk about a birthday buzzkill. Blowing out birthday candles causes an astronomical increase in bacteria covering the cake, a new study says. This is the latest discovery from the same food safety ...

My Birthday Cake Candles Almost Started a Forest Fire. by Jack Neworth. July 21, 2017. in Columns, Laughing Matters, Opinion. 0. ... Remember when you were a kid, how long summer vacation seemed?