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FRASIER’S FRIDAY FACT

Volume XCIII

5/3/2019

Hello everyone,

Welcome back to Frasier's Friday Fact, where we cherish knowledge and continually build our mental database of useless information to use at parties.

Now that Easter has passed us by, several coworkers have been bringing in leftovers to work. One such sweet was a German Chocolate Cake.

I, for one, assumed that this chocolate cake was German in origin, as I imagine many have. However, I was wrong. The "German" in German Chocolate Cake does not refer to the German people, but one American baker, Samuel German.

Mr. German developed a type of dark baking chocolate in 1852 for the Baker's Chocolate Company. The brand name of the product, Baker's German's Sweet Chocolate, was named in honor of him. 105 years later, in 1957, a recipe for "German's Chocolate Cake" appeared as the "Recipe of the Day" in The Dallas Morning News. It was created by Mrs. George Clay, from Dallas. As the recipe was distributed to other papers across the country, the possessive "s" was dropped, changing the name to German Chocolate Cake, and confusing people with sweet tooths for the next 62 years.

If all of this has made you hungry, June 11 is National German Chocolate Cake Day.

Stay sweet, my friends.

Fraish