What is National German Chocolate Cake Day?
National German Chocolate Cake Day, June 11th, honors a cake with American roots. National Chocolate Cake Day is June 11th. It also happens to be one of America's top ten favorite cakes.
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Although the name may seem to have resembled the cake's origins in Germany, it wasn't. The cake's roots can be traced back to 1852, when American Sam German developed a form of dark baking chocolate for the American Baker's Chocolate Company. t.v. Sam German's German Sweet Chocolate's brand was named in honor of Sam German.
The Dallas Morning Star's Recipe of the Day was published over 100 years ago in 1957, a chocolate cake recipe for "German's Chocolate Cake" was featured as the Recipe of the Day. This dish, which was created by Mrs. George Clay, used Baker's German Sweet Chocolate, and it became extremely popular. During this period, GM owned Baker's brand and sold Mrs. Clay's recipe to other newspapers around the country. As newspapers began removing the's,'s new name of German Chocolate Cake, as we know it today, came to be.
