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National German Chocolate Cake Day
June 11, 2015
German chocolate cake is not from Germany as some would suppose. The name comes from a man named Sam German who developed a type of dark baking chocolate for cake baking. The German Chocolate Cake it typically a chocolate layer cake filled with or topped with caramel made with egg yolks and evaporated milk. The coconut and pecans are added once the topping has cooled. Sometimes a chocolate frosting is spread on the sides of the cake and it is topped with maraschino cherries for garnish.