Man on man as I was sharing Food Holidays: June 11th, 2022 with you my mouth started to wonder. It’s National German Chocolate Cake Day my all time favorite Cake. Although, no, one can make a German Chocolate Cake like my grandmother did.
National German Chocolate Cake Day
On June 11th, National German Chocolate Cake Day celebrates a cake with American roots. It also happens to be one of the top 10 favorite cakes in America.
Although the name may sound like German Chocolate Cake originated in Germany, it did not. The Cake’s roots can be traced back to 1852 when American Sam German made a type of Dark Baking Chocolate for the American Baker’s Chocolate Company. Baker’s German Sweet Chocolate’s brand was named in honor of Sam German.
Over 100 years later in 1957, a recipe for “German’s Chocolate Cake” appeared as the Recipe of the Day in the Dallas Morning Star. This recipe, created by Mrs. George Clay, used Baker’s German’s Sweet Chocolate, which became quite popular. During this time, General Foods owned Baker’s brand and distributed Mrs. Clay’s recipe to other newspapers around the Country. The current name of German Chocolate Cake, as we know it today, came to be as publications started dropping the ‘s.
HOW TO OBSERVE German Chocolate Cake Day
Celebrate by enjoying a piece of German Chocolate Cake with friends and share the photos on Social Media using #GermanChocolateCake
Did you know German Chocolate Cake isn’t German at all. German Chocolate Cake is named after the recipe on German Chocolate box which was first published on June 3rd, 1957.
Five facts about Cakes:
- The Celtics celebrate a festival by name the name of the Beltane festival. During the Beltane Festival, they lite bonfires atop a hill and will roll down round Cakes from the hill. If the Cake doesn’t break, the Celtics believe the Cake will bring good fortune.
- Cakes definitely play a major role during Weddings, but how these Wedding ceremonies were completed during ancient times was they either break a big Bread loaf on top of the bride’s head or simply throw pieces of Bread on her.
- It is believed that these Cakes were present since the bygone era and during the first Olympic Games, athletes were given Cheesecakes.
- During the 17th Century, in England, people believed that keeping Fruitcakes under the pillow of those who are unmarried will give them sweet dreams about their fiancée.
- Long ago, a women ate a slice of “Red Velvet Cake’ in a restaurant which she liked very much. The women asked for the recipe which the restaurant promptly sent to her. The women got furious when she received the recipe that she asked for. Do you know why? The women was charged $100 for asking for a copy of the recipe. You know what she did? She sent this recipe as chain mail to hundreds and thousands of people she knew as revenge.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
