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German Chocolate Cake Day, Share Your Recipe
Patch partner Fox 2 News welcomed Jilly's Cupcake Bar to share some small ideas for German chocolate cake. Watch this video for the bakery's secrets.
June 11 is National German Chocolate Cake Day.
It's an excuse to indulge in fluffy, chocolate cake, pecans, caramel and all sorts of sticky goodness but do you know how the chocolate got its name?
An American by the name Sam German developed a sweet baking chocolate for Baker’s Chocolate Company in the mid-1800s. The product was further popularized a century later by a German's chocolate cake recipe in the Dallas Morning Star, but the possessive has since been dropped, according to CNN.
Want a smaller take on the cake?
Patch partner Fox 2 News welcomed Chef Casey Shiller from Jilly's Cupcake Bar in to share in some creative cupcake making ideas.
Click and watch the video if you'd like to learn the bakery's secret to German chocolate cake.
You can also visit its website: jillyscupcakebar.com
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