A birthday cake is a cake eaten as part of a birthday celebration in many world traditions. Variations of the typical birthday cake include birthday cupcakes, cake pops, pastries, and tarts. Birthday cakes are often vanilla-, chocolate-, or strawberry-flavored. They are baked in a variety of shapes and decorated with icing or fondant, often in multiple colors.Birthday cakes have been a part of birthday celebrations in Western European countries since the middle of the 19th century.[1] However, the link between cakes and birthday celebrations may date back to ancient Roman times.nnIn classical Roman culture, `cakes` were occasionally served at special birthdays and at weddings. These were flat circles made from flour and nuts, leavened with yeast, and sweetened with honey.nnIn the 15th century, bakeries in Germany began to market one-layer cakes for customers` birthdays as opposed to only marketing cakes for weddings, and thus the modern birthday cake was born

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