THIS Sunday we celebrate Chocolate Cake Day – and gives you an excuse to make your own delicious version.
Chocolate cake was first made in 1764 but making chocolate was a long, tiring and boring process. People ground cocoa beans between heavy stones produced cocoa powder.
It took until Casparus van Houten invented a way to mechanically extract fat from the cacao liquor and produce cacao butter. Van Houten is who we have to thank for making chocolate so affordable.
Since then the types of cake and techniques involved. On top of the original traditional chocolate cake, we now have Black Forest cake with its cherries to the German chocolate cake with its rich coconut-pecan icing.
New cakes are being invented all the time as chocolate reigns supreme.
