Today is National German Chocolate Cake Day
June 11, 2018
The Bottom Line: June 11th is National German Chocolate Cake Day!
The Full Story:
June 11th is National German Chocolate Cake Day! While German Chocolate cake isnāt German at all ā itās actually named after the recipe on Germanās Chocolate box ā it first hit American kitchens after itās first published recipe June 3rd, 1957. So whatās the connection? The cakeās roots can be traced back to 1852 when American Sam German made a type of dark baking chocolate for the American Bakerās Chocolate Company. Bakerās Germanās Sweet Chocolateās brand was named in his honor.
Fast forward to 1957, a recipe for āGermanās Chocolate Cakeā appeared as the āRecipe of the Dayā in the āDallas Morning Starā newspaper. This recipe, which was created by Mrs. George Clay, used the Bakerās Germanās Sweet Chocolate, and it became quite popular. Picking up on that, General Foods (who owned the Bakerās brand) distributed Mrs. Clayās 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 ās. And the rest is history!