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 …read more

I loooove German chocolate cake, and I couldn’t pass up this picture for this week’s Chocolate Zen!
What’s your favorite kind of chocolate cake? Plain? Molten? Zucchini?
[image: flickr]

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