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German Chocolate cake. What in the world is German about this cake? ;) (my thoughts when I saw it at a US supermarket for the first time)

The answer is: N-O-T-H-I-N-G. At least nothing “German” meaning “Germany-related German”. The guy who invented the cake in the 19th century was an English dude whose last name was: German. HA! And although it was called “German’s Chocolate Cake” at first, the “‘s” was dropped after some time.
I was already worried that I had missed an important part of German food culture! Now I’m really curious and I wanna bake one. Does anybody know a good recipe?

Here’s a good recipe http://www.davidlebovitz.com/archives/2005/09/german_chocolat_1.html

It’s making me hungry now.

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2. piecesofbree reblogged this from germanheit and added:

   isn’t even German?

3. sarahebu88 reblogged this from germanheit and added:

   Interesting fact, all. Enjoy. Also, high-rated recipe link

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6. greetingsfrommymailbox answered: that answered all my questions.
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8. morrgg answered: that’s funny, we’ve been getting extra credit for baking a german chocolate cake in my german class for quite some time now!
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    recipe http://www.davidlebovitz.com/archives/2005/09/german_chocolat_1.html It’s making me hungry now.

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    But it’s so delicious!

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