German Chocolate Cake Day
June 11, 2009 by Heather R.
Filed under Chocolate History, Chocolate Holidays, Chocolate Recipes
It is once again German Chocolate Cake Day! German chocolate cake is traditionally a layered chocolate cake filled and topped with a gooey coconut-pecan frosting.
Oddly enough, the cake didn’t originate in Germany. The name actually comes from Baker’s German’s Sweet Chocolate, the brand used by a Texas homemaker in 1957 who used the chocolate to make her “German’s Chocolate Cake.”
The possessive “s” was dropped by General Foods, who subsequently distributed the recipe, and became the German Chocolate Cake we all know and love today.
Check out David Lebovitz’s amazing German Chocolate Cake Recipe, where the flickr picture up top came from.
Yummmmm!
Awesome!
Thanks for the recipe!