Birthday cakes are a historical way of celebrating a birthday, in previous times people would bake cakes with items such as coins or thimbles used to denote a future event - coins suggesting wealth and thimbles suggesting potential marriage issues.

Decorating the cake is essential when personalising the experience for the recipient. Candles make for an excellent way of adding a theme to the cake and the choices are wide ranging.

You could add relighting candles to the cake ensuring a giggle from observers and participants! Other candles with a difference include sparkling candles which are more vibrant than normal candles, musical candles which play a tune when twisted or even neon candles to really bring extra colour to the cake.