We've all had a slice, or at least got a whiff in a bakery or restaurant of that thick chocolaty smell. Your brain may take you to some place in Bavaria, where you can follow the rich dark chocolate aroma all through the alley ways of Dusseldorf, and... you'd be wrong.
Wind the clock back to 1852, when a gentleman named Samuel German formulated a smooth dark chocolate for baking. The product, owned by the Baker's Chocolate Company was branded as Baker's German's Sweet Chocolate, so named in Sam's honor.
Now wind the clock forward to a little over 100 years, to 1957. That's when a recipe for German's Chocolate Cake first appeared in print. The recipe was cobbled together not by a German housfrau, but by a homemaker named Mrs. Clay, and she, along with Samuel German, though generations apart, both were citizens of... Dallas, Texas.
Because of the way we Americans tend to mangle the English language, German's Chocolate Cake was eventually muddled down to just German Chocolate Cake. I mean, who could be bothered with that dangling -'s-, it didn't really mean anything, except the difference between a man's name and a country in Europe. No big deal, right?
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