Our chocolate cake baking adventure. Sometimes you need to experiment to save your cake! What we had in mind was a simple moist chocolate cake with some yummy frosting on top. As we went through frosting ideas in our heads, we thought of white chocolate. Well, wouldn’t it be tasty to make a dark chocolate cake with white chocolate frosting? Yes,

I am officially 31 years old as of yesterday.Husband surprised me with my favorite cake (yellow cake with chocolate frosting) and ice cream. He invited a group of our friends over and we talked until after midnight, mostly about sex. (Didn't I tell you I have a new group of real-life friends with whom I can chat about sex? More in another post.

...but German Chocolate Cake - which one might infer, has something to do with Germany - has recently raised a red-flag in Thor's little world. Why? Well, where the hell did Germans got so much damned coconut (generally in the Coconut Pecan Filling and Frosting)?

We encountered the Raspberry Chocolate doughnut today. It’s a chocolate cake doughnut with fuchsia icing in a squiggle across the top. Yes, it seems like a cop-out, but don’t underestimate the strength of this frosting...

German Chocolate Cake is a layered chocolate cake filled and topped with a coconut-pecan frosting. Sweet baking chocolate is traditionally used for the chocolate flavor in the actual cake, but few recipes call for it today. The coconut and pecans are mixed into a sweetened and thickened cream base. Generally, a chocolate frosting is spread on the sides of the cake and piped around the circumference of the layers to hold in the filling. Maraschino cherries are an added touch. HistoryThis cake is actually not a traditional German dessert. The original recipe was sent by a homemaker in Dallas in 1957 to a newspaper in Texas. It used Baker's German's Sweet Chocolate, which was created in 1852 by an Englishman named Samuel German for the Baker's chocolate brand. Coconut is also a major baking product of the company.The cake became quite popular and General Foods — which owned Baker's Chocolate at the time — sent the recipe to other newspapers in the country. Sales of the company are said to have increased by as much as 73%. The apostrophe was accidentally dropped in subsequent publications, creating the 'German Chocolate Cake' we know today.It has been suggested that the cake didn't strictly originate from this recipe. Similar buttermilk and chocolate cakes have been popular in the South for over 70 years.