Happy National Chocolate Cake Day! On January 27th, today celebrates the cake more people favor. And more often than not, we celebrate our special occasions like anniversaries, birthdays and weddings with cake.
In America, chocolate was consumed primarily as a beverage until the 1830s or 40s. Chocolate cakes, as we think of them today, mostly did not exist then.
According to the Dover Post, the chocolate cake was born in 1765 when a doctor and a chocolate maker teamed up in an old mill. They ground up cocoa beans between huge millstones to make a thick syrup. The liquid was poured into molds shaped like cakes, which were meant to be transformed into a beverage.
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A popular Philadelphia cookbook author of popular cookbooks during the nineteenth century, Eliza Leslie (frequently referred to as Miss Leslie), published the earliest chocolate cake recipe in 1850 in "Miss Leslie's Lady's New Receipt-Book: A Useful Guide for Large or Small Families Containing Directions for Cooking, Preserving, Pickling".
Unlike chocolate cakes we know today, this recipe used chopped chocolate. Other cooks of the time such as American food writer and pioneer in the field of domestic science Sarah Tyson Rorer (described as the first American dietitian) and American author of books on cooking and housekeeping Maria Parloa all made contributions to the development of the chocolate cake. Both were prolific authors of cookbooks.
The first boxed cake mix was created by a Pittsburg molasses canning company called P. Duff and Sons in the late 1920s. Years later, Betty Crocker released their first dry cake mixes in 1947.
HOW TO OBSERVE
Try your hand at this homemade chocolate cake from Add a Pinch®.
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HISTORY
National Day Calendar® says to have your cake and eat chocolate, too. They just don’t know who created a holiday celebrating this delicious treat!
After all, shouldn't today be every day?
After all, shouldn't today be every day?
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