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German chocolate cake


If you have some German heritage, and thought you were honoring your ancestors by digging into a piece of sweet, German chocolate cake, you couldn’t be more wrong.

While this tasty treat does have the name “German” in the title, it has absolutely nothing to do with the country itself. 

In the mid-19th century, a man named Sam German came up with a recipe for dark baking chocolate bars that could be used when making cake. 

Sam, who worked for the Baker Chocolate Company, did such a good job, that he got a cake named after him.

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