Cupcakes or a cake with gold icing and/or candles on top make sense for any age birthday honoree. We like these long thin gold metallic candles that come in a set of 24.

The tradition of putting candles on a birthday cake is said to have roots in Ancient Greek and German cultures. In Greece, round cakes were made to honor Artemis, the goddess of the moon, with candles ...

What began as a sacred ritual has become one of the world’s most widespread party traditions. From moonlit offerings in Greece to protective spells in medieval Europe, birthday candles once carried ...

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 ...

Sobering thought for the day: The older you get, the more birthday candles on your cake. For Ernestine Ashworth, who in Noah Haidle’s one-act play “Birthday Candles” ages from 17 to 107, that means a ...