Chocolate cake is my absolute favorite!
I know mine too! it is also called chocolate gateau (from french words) and it is a cake flavored with either meltd chocolate, cocoa powder, or both.
I've not had that variant. The one that I like most uses a mayonnaise in it.
You should chocolate cake has a history! It goes back to 1794 when Dr. James baker discovered how to make chocolate by grinding cocoa beans between two massive circular milstones. It's been around for  a while so as you can imagine thousands of recipes have come up since that time
Are there any good books about chocolate cake that you know of?
The only book on chocolate i have is one on keto, but you dont want to try it unless you are ACTUALLY on keto because it will taste a little different haha. But there is a band in melbourne austrailia called My Friend the Chocolate Cake. Would be funny if their favorite cake was strawberry though 
Yeah, I imagine keto chocolate is unsweetened, so would be a little more bitter than normal.  What genre of music is My Friend the Chocolate Cake?
They are a contemporary band! They won two ARIA music awards for it. Two of their albums are "Brood" and "Good Luck" :)
I'll have to look them up.  Do you enjoy ice cream with your cake, or just chocolate cake by itself?
were mostly for chocolate drinks, and its presence in cakes was only in fillings and glazes. In 1886, American cooks began adding chocolate to the cake batter, to make the first chocolate cakes in the US.
The Duff Company of Pittsburgh, a molasses manufacturer, introduced Devil's food chocolate cake mixes in the mid-1930s, but introduction was put on hold during World War II. Duncan Hines introduced a "Three Star Special" (so called because a white, yellow or chocolate cake could be made from the same
Chocolate cake
Chocolate cake or chocolate gâteau (from French: "gâteau au chocolat") is a cake flavored with melted chocolate, cocoa powder, or both.
History.
Chocolate cake is made with chocolate. It can also include other ingredients. These include fudge, vanilla creme, and other sweeteners.The history of chocolate cake goes back to 1764, when Dr. James Baker discovered how to make chocolate by grinding cocoa beans between two massive circular millstones.
In 1828, Coenraad van Houten of the Netherlands