No celebration, especially a birthday party or a wedding is ever complete without a grand, rich, topped with delicious icing, cake! Everybody loves them. Even the ones on a diet would take a nibble from a cake. It is not always possible to bake a cake at home for a large number of people especially on a short notice, so next day delivery cakes make a good option for ordering. We have been eating cakes since our childhood, but did you know that man since centuries has involved cakes as a part of their festivities, but certainly in the weirdest of ways.

Here are a few interesting facts about how cakes have been involved as a part of our festivities, since time immemorial-

• For the Romans, cakes and breads were almost the same thing. Butter, eggs and honey were used to make the basic bread dough during this time and thus the Roman bread ended up tasting more like what we know as cakes today.

• Have you heard about the Beltane festival? It is a festival that used to be celebrated by the Celtic, a long time ago. A major part of this festival comprised of lighting bonfires on the top of a hill and then rolling down cakes from there. These cakes, needless to say, were round in shape, and if the cakes did not break they believed it was a sign of good fortune. Imagine how hard the cakes must have been, not to break when rolled down from a hill!

• Who doesn’t love cheesecakes! Well, the concept of cheesecakes it seems is very ancient. The Greeks who started the Olympic Games in Olympia, the athletes were offered cheesecakes.

• If red is the colour of revenge, then red velvet cakes are no less. Do you know how the red velvet cake became so popular? Here’s a little story. Once a woman went to a restaurant and there she tasted this cake for the first time. She found it so delicious that she asked the restaurant chef to give her the recipe. They did, but with the recipe, they sent her a hundred dollar bill as well! Naturally, the lady was very upset and so as a payback, she sent the recipe to everyone she knew! If you do not have the recipe yet then order one with the help of next day delivery cake uk.

• Superstitions are indeed weird! It was back in the 17^th century, that the English people strongly believed that if soon to be married ones kept a fruitcake under their pillows, they would have sweet dreams and thoughts about their to be partners! Sweet dreams or not, but the fruit cakes did manage to attract a lot of ants, surely.

• The cake for the bride in a wedding is generally covered with a pure white frosting since white stands for virginity and hence purity.

• The Romans had a pretty baffling wedding custom when it came to cakes. After the wedding ceremony was over and celebrations were underway, the Romans used to break the cake on the bride’s head! This was done to bless the couple with fertility and a good fortune.

So, each and every cake thus has a history of its own. Cakes have and continue to be one of the most essential parts of our festivities even today!