Celebrate Chocolate Cake Day Every January 27

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Mmmmm … is there anything better than a rich, velvety chocolate cake, covered with rich, gooey chocolate frosting?

If you say no, then today’s the day for you. It’s Chocolate Cake Day.

And you have permission to eat as much chocolate cake as you want (or your stomach will tolerate).

We’re not sure who created Chocolate Cake Day or why. But we suspect it was a chocolate cake lover. Maybe even a baker who wanted to share his/her love of chocolate cakes with more people. But none of that matters when all you want is some chocolate cake.

 

A Bite (or Sip?) of Chocolate History

Chocolate is indeed the “food of the gods,” from Theobroma cacao, the Latin name for the cacao tree.

But the product made from that tree wasn’t always the sweet confection we think of today. For much of history the product made from this tree was a drink. And it wasn’t sweet. In fact, it was fermented in at least some cases.

The cacao bean was even used as money by the Aztecs.

It wasn’t until the Europeans arrived and found the Aztec’s drink too bitter for their tastes that someone thought to sweeten it. But it was still only a drink.

A Dutch chemist created powdered chocolate (quickly named “Dutch cocoa”) in 1828. Part of the process for doing this involved removing some of the fat from the liquid cacao. It didn’t take long for Joseph Fry to add back some of the fat (cacao butter) to make a chocolate paste that could then be made into chocolate bars.

But back to chocolate cake. That Dutch cocoa is one of the things that can make chocolate cakes so … well, chocolaty. And shaved curls of chocolate make them prettier.

Of course, you can get chocolate cakes in many different versions, from a simple single layer cake to Devil’s Food cakes or lava cakes (individual cakes with warm liquid centers). There are even flourless chocolate cakes for people with gluten sensitivities.

So anyone who loves chocolate can enjoy it in all its glory.

You can make a chocolate cake completely from scratch or use a boxed mix. The very first chocolate cake mix arrived in 1948 from Pillsbury.

Scroll down for some ideas on celebrating this sweet, chocolaty unofficial holiday.

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Celebrating Chocolate Cake Day

Clearly the main requirement for celebrating this day is to eat chocolate cake.

Store-bought is certainly acceptable.

But if you can make one, it’s even better. Making it ahead of time is also acceptable. But making it and then eating it all on Chocolate Cake Day would … well, take the cake! (yes, we amuse ourselves :) )

If you don’t already have a favorite recipe, or you’d like to try a new one, here are a few to try:

• German Chocolate Cake. One of our favorites.
• The Best Chocolate Cake Ever. That’s the name, not our opinion of it! (We haven’t tried it, but reviewers seem to agree).
• Gluten Free Chocolate Cake. Reviewers seem to think this is one of the best (if not the best) gluten-free recipes around.
• Beatty’s Chocolate Cake. From Ina Garten. Reviews are mixed, but we’d be willing to give it a try.

 

So what kind of chocolate cake will you be having to celebrate Chocolate Cake Day?

 

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