Chocolate Cake

Cakes are a type of food that has been enjoyed for centuries. The earliest cakes are thought to date back to ancient Egypt. Chocolate cakes were a delicacy when chocolate was first introduced as a means to flavor desserts. Chocolate arrived in Europe upon the return of the Spanish from Central America, its popularity spreading across Europe over the span of only a few years, its exotic flavor appealing to confectioners for the flavor, creativity and popularity it allowed them, as well as royalty and the wealthy elite. It wasn't until certain progress in processing chocolate came about that chocolate was available to the average population in forms other than drink or cakes.

One popular chocolate cake recipe is the German Chocolate cake recipe. German chocolate cake did not come from Germany, the chocolate it was made from did not come from Germany, and the man who invented the recipe lived in Texas. The reason German Chocolate Cake has its name is due to the creator of the recipe. The man was named Sam German, and he developed a recipe in the lat 1800's for a baking company in Texas. The company was delighted with the recipe and so called the cake the Baker's German's Sweet Chocolate Cake. In later years the cake came to be known as German Chocolate cake. The recipe gained in popularity due to its publication in a local Texas newspaper sometime in the 1950's.

There are many excellent chocolate recipes that can be found in cookbooks in local bookstores and free chocolate cake recipes can be found in abundance all over the internet. There are free chocolate mousse cake recipes, chocolate layer cake recipes, devil's food cake, which is made with dark chocolate with coffee and capped with a layer of dark chocolate icing, potently chocolate death by chocolate cake recipes, French flourless cakes, tarts (small cakes), and cakes made with cocoa.