It’s National German Chocolate Cake Day (really!) so I dug out one of my favorite ways to play with German Chocolate Cake.
It’s called Better Than Sex Cake, and the first time I heard the name I did a double-take – did they really just say what I thought they said? Yep! And I’ll admit, this is some really darn good cake, and the first time I tried it I understood how it got its name. But you’ll have to decide for yourself how much you like it!
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Better Than Sex Cake
1 (18.25 oz) package devil’s food or German chocolate …read more

Today is National Devil’s Food Cake Day! Yeah, I don’t know who comes up with these but I’m not going to complain!
Devil’s Food Cake is traditionally a rich chocolate layer cake paired with chocolate frosting and is thought of as the counterpart to Angel Food Cake. Makes sense, right?
The first known recipe for Devil’s Food Cake in the U.S. dates back to 1905, and it’s called Devil’s Food Cake not only because of the inclusion of real chocolate in the recipe, but because the baking soda causes the cocoa to redden when baked!
Devil’s Food Cake
1 1/4 cups sugar
1 cup buttermilk
2/3 …read more

I’ve been trying to find some more chocolate sites and blogs to add to my blogroll recently and in the process have come across some great sites. Below I’ve picked just a few noteworthy entries out of all the great links over in the sidebar:
- Chocolate Obsession reviews… bacon-flavored chocolate. For real.
- The Chocolate Nerd found Guayabitas: “sweet guava jelly drops rolled in sunkissed Costa Rican dark chocolate.”
- Chocablog has an amazingly huge slab of milk chocolate, caramel milk chocolate and white chocolate swirled together. A bit of perspective can be found here. Chocablog also reviews Cadbury’s Dairy Milk with …read more