German Chocolate Cake Day | June 11
Sun Jun 11th

National German Chocolate Cake Day

National Chocolate Cake Day, June 11th, honors a cake with American roots. In addition, it is also one of America's top ten favorite cakes.

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Despite the fact that the name may seem to have resembled the cake's origins in Germany, it wasn't. The cake's origins can be traced back to 1852, when American Sam German developed a form of dark baking chocolate for the American Baker's Chocolate Company. Sam German, Baker's German Sweet Chocolate's brand was named in honor of Sam German.

In 1957, a recipe for "German's Chocolate Cake" appeared as the Recipe of the Day in the Dallas Morning Star, over 100 years later. Mrs. George Clay's recipe used Baker's German Sweet Chocolate, and it became extremely popular. During this period, General Foods owned Baker's brand and sold Mrs. Clay's recipe to other newspapers around the country. The current German Chocolate Cake, as we know it today, came to be as magazines began to stop using the word ‘s.'

How to celebrate german chocolate cake day

Celebrate by sharing a piece of German Chocolate Cake with colleagues.. hocolateCakeDay was used in photos on social media.

The German Chocolate Cake recipe is a German chocolate cake recipe.

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