The Candlemas festival in Mexico symbolizes the end of the winter and holiday season and the beginning of the Carnival events. It is celebrated all over Mexico with a plethora of colourful parades, lively music and street decorations.

Families convene for a huge dinner and the cutting of the "rosca" cake wherein the one who find the hidden jesus figurine in the dessert gets to be the host of the Candlemas party.