The 33-year-old singer shared an image of the green cake on Instagram while announcing the launch of the Rare Impact Fund’s ...

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

“The tradition of blowing out candles on a cake has always kind of grossed me out, to be honest, even before covid-19,” says Caissie St. Onge, a comedy writer and television producer in Los ...

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 ...

In addition to the usual holiday gatherings, plenty of people also celebrate birthdays, too. In May, the Journal of Food Research reported that blowing out candles on a birthday cake increases the ...

Then right as the cake is ready, Haisley leans down and blows out all the candles herself. “Don’t worry, I didn’t want to make a wish anyway,” Angel writes over the clip.

A 2017 study published in the Journal of Food Research showed that, after blowing out candles, cake icing had a staggering 1,400 percent more bacteria than icing that had not been blown on.