January 27 is National Chocolate Cake Day and although it is an unofficially recognized holiday, it is celebrated by chocolate lovers everywhere. January 27 is National Chocolate Cake Day and although it is an unofficially recognized holiday, it is celebrated by chocolate lovers everywhere. If you are a chocolate lover then this is the day for you! You can bake a chocolate cake, buy one, eat it all yourself or share it with family and friends.
In America, chocolate was consumed primarily as a beverage until the 1830’s or 40’s. Cakes, as we think of them today, mostly did not exist then. According to the Dover Post, chocolate cake was born in 1765 when a doctor and a chocolate maker teamed up in an old mill. They ground up cocoa beans between huge millstones to make thick syrup. The liquid was poured into molds shaped like cakes, which were meant to be transformed into a beverage. Years later, a special dessert was created for a prince in the 1800's by an Austrian chef. He used two layers of chocolate dough with jam spread in the middle. Chocolate frosting was then poured over the dessert. Hence the birth of the chocolate cake!!
The first boxed cake mix was created by a company called O. Duff and Sons in the late 1920’s.
The first "just add water" cake mixes were released in 1947.