 January 27th, 2012
09:00 AM ET
While you're frying up some eggs and bacon, we're cooking up something else: a way to celebrate today's food holiday. Today, everyone is a member of chocoholics anonymous - January 27 is National Chocolate Cake Day! Forget the fork and feel free to just stick your face in this decadent dessert; it's guaranteed to help you forget any annoyances and just put a big, silly grin on your face. We have Dr. James Baker to thank for bringing chocolate cake to fruition, and the masses. In 1764, he developed a way to make chocolate by grinding the cocoa beans between two giant millstones. Cocoa powder was born, and with it came infinite baking possibilities. Take the ethical chocolate baking challenge on iReport Duncan Hines also developed a "Three Star Special" cake mix, meaning you could make white, yellow or chocolate cake, after World War II, making it even easier for folks to find a fast fix. Since then, Americans have been obsessed with chocolate cake trends. Who could forget chocolate decadence in the '80s, or our favorite molten lava cakes? Now, it's flourless and artisanal chocolate cake-like confections. Let your chocolate flag fly today and get as much cake as you can take. Just looking at this chocolate turtle cake is enough to make our eyes cross, so go cocoa loco. |
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Ok, I really wish I didn't miss National Chocolate Cake day. Tanya Glascoe
Awesome!!!
So Sad,,how the little people are sooo jealous of the wonderful USA
That cake in the picture looks like somebody took a dump and they clobbered it together.. Should be called "national turd cake day."
Whoa Nelly,You dropped something.
Interesting, given the investigation on child slave labor that's used to grow/collect cocoa. Also makes me think of New York Times article on the near-slave labor that's used at technology supply factories in China (i.e. iPads and iPhones).
How many people in America and all the other "civilized" countries are going to look at these articles, think "how awful", but then continue right on buying these products?
Hey there – if you click the link to the ethical chocolate challenge (it's in there twice) it's all about how to still enjoy chocolate, but make sure it's fair trade from places that uphold human rights standards. Spread the word!
Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test.
So what happened to the Child Chocolate Slave Trade that you reported on last week? It's okay to eat chocolate now because it's National Chocolate Day? Lame.
" Keeping them Honest"
You can always buy fair trade.
Hey there – if you click the link to the ethical chocolate challenge (it's in there twice) it's all about how to still enjoy chocolate, but make sure it's fair trade from places that uphold human rights standards. Spread the word!
Wegmans Ultimate Chocolate Cake. Enough said.
stop talking and pass the cake!!!🍰
Yes, America... get fatter.
So we aren't supposed to even talk about things like chocolate cake any more?
"National Chocolate Cake Day", "National Pie Day", "National Hot Dog Day"...you wonder why you Americans are the fattest country in the world?
Fat and happy. God bless America,
Amen Chocoholic!
...perhaps because americans in general have more resources and money than the other nations?
That's good to say in a debt-Based society
Go take a hike fata$$
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Hail to the Chocolate
One average slice of chocolate cake has enough calories in it to replace one or two meals.
Perfect! Breakfast, lunch, and dinner for me!
Don't be late, for your chocolate date, with your favorite mate. Friday, January 27th, 2012. National Chocolate Cake day.
"In 1764...Cocoa powder was born"
I call BS on that one. Tribes in South American have been eating that stuff for thousands of years
Your right they have been eating it for a long time, or rather drinking it. But what they drank was more like a tea made from roasted cocoa beans similar to the way we make coffee today. One could argue they did grind the beans by hand but it was no where near as fine as cocoa powder.
Ever wonder why you crave chocolate? It's because it's a DRUG, sillies! It even has a cannabis-like substance in it that encourages addiction. It also contains a neurotoxin called salsolinol that's linked to Parkinson's Disease. Chocolate is a safe treat in moderation for many people, but for a lot of us it's just another way to get the worst hangover in history. As for me, I will boycott Chocolate Cake Day.
Really? There was no chocolate cake before 1764? Why do Americans take credit for everything when in fact they have accomplished nothing but the worlds fattest people
Your attitude is as bad as your reading.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker%27s_Chocolate_%28brand%29
Just used this to justify buying a gigantic chocolate cake. So delicious.
Good thing dark chocolate is good for you (in moderate amounts) with Christmas, Valentine's Day, Easter & all the other "sweet" holidays – we now can add National Chocolate Cake Day. No wonder the Aztecs used cocoa beans as a form of currency!
So earlier in the week I read about child slavery in the chocolate trade on this site, and now you announce national chocolate cake day?
Made me laugh.
Note that we asked people to join our ethical chocolate challenge! There truly IS a way to eat chocolate and not support slavery. Take a look at the link in the article. It's there a couple of times.
Fair trade chocolate, dude :)
Perfect! Today is my daughter's 12th birthday. No wonder she loves chocolate so much!
now they tell me, oh well better late than never...is that a mudcake or a choc sponge..
Thanks! just the excuse I needed to tell my wife to bake a chocolate cake for me this weekend!!
Hi everyone.... I'm a Chocoholic. I am drowning in the depths of Devils Food Cake with fudge icing topped with chocolate chips........
Repent and ye will be saved. (save the 2nd piece for me)
Ah... so That's why I had to buy that chocolate cake from Trader Joe's the other day... Obviously I need to eat a nice big piece tonight.
How did James Baker invent pressing cocoa. Didn't the aztecs do that?!
thats what i thought?
I WISH SOMEBODY HAD TOLD ME THIS MORNING!!!!!!
me 2!
We did tell you this morning. You can lick the plate ...
Conrad Van Houten did not "invent" cocoa butter. He invented the machine that could separate and extract ~50% of the cocoa butter from the chocolate liquor, leaving a dry, cake-like product that could be pulverized into cocoa powder (1800s).
"Swiss Rodolphe" was Rodolphe Lindt.
The Spanish had been grinding chocolate to a powder since the late 1600s. Cocoa powder was not "born" with Dr. Baker. He just "dutched" it, a process that is often used to make inferior beans more palatable.
It doesn't say that Van Houten invented cocoa butter! It says that his mechanical extraction method created cocoa butter. Kind of a like a freezer creates ice, but you wouldn't give credit for its invention to the man who invented the freezer!
Exactly. Some people can't read.
I invented cocoa butter on my toilet this morning
!. Cherry Pie Day
2.Blue Berry Pie Day
3.Chocolate Cake Day......Yep,this will last me allllllllll year.
Mmmm, a flourless chocolate cake is absolute deca-dense. This may be my favorite day yet.