Blueberry cheesecake, Black Forest cake, Cheery Fudge cake, fruit cake, pumpkin cake, all these and myriads of cakes have been part of a long history.  Many of the cake recipes are even centuries old.

Cake was even called 'plakous' by the Greeks that denotes 'flat,' 'placenta' during the Roman empire, and 'libum' by the Romans. However, the word cake has Anglo Saxon origin, which earlier was regarded as 'smaller breads.'

Wherever these cakes came from, it boils down to one thing- cakes are made up of flour, sugar, eggs, milk and fat.  Having a slice of this delicious treat every now and then, is not bad at all. But remember, the more calories you take in, the more chances you gain weight if you don't burn it.

As cakes have myriads of variation, with recipe tweaks and preparation, cakes can also be bought in its simplest fondant form to the most extravagant ones. North America and Europe with strong European influence have been always the center of the cakes.

There is no doubt that the world's most expensive cake was from Chester England with a whooping value of £34 million (about $52.7 million). The eight tiered most expensive confection was ornamented with over 4,000 diamonds and was showcased on March 3, 2013 at the National Gay Wedding Show in Liverpool, Chester.

'Cake,' a bakery in Chester collaborated with elite jewelers Russell and Case to make the world's most expensive cake , which has beaten the previous US record title holder.  The former record holder has estimated worth of $20 million and was made by Mimi So Jewellers and cake designer Nahid La Patisserie Artistique of Beverly Hills.