Do you like chocolate cake? It's my favorite.
I love Chocolate Cake! My favorite is German Chocolate
The history of it dates back to 1764!
Did you know German chocolate cake is named after Samuel German?
I did not! Until 1890 chocolate recipes were mostly for drinks!
Wow, I didn't know that. Samuel German came up with the formula for the dark baking chocolate used in the cake. That's why they named it after him.
developed a mechanical extraction method for extracting the fat from cacao liquor resulting in cacao butter and the partly defatted cacao, a compacted mass of solids that could be sold as it was "rock cacao" or ground into powder. The processes transformed chocolate from an exclusive luxury to an inexpensive daily snack. A process for making silkier and smoother chocolate called conching was developed in 1879 by Rodolphe Lindt and made it easier to bake with chocolate, as it amalgamates smoothly and completely with cake batters. Until 1890 to 1900, chocolate recipes
German chocolate cake
German chocolate cake, originally German's chocolate cake, is a layered chocolate cake from the United States filled and topped with a coconut-pecan frosting. It owes its name to an English-American chocolate maker named Samuel German, who developed a formulation of dark baking chocolate that came to be used in the cake recipe. Sweet baking chocolate is traditionally used for the chocolate flavor in the actual cake, but few recipes call for it today. The filling and/or topping is a custard made with egg yolks