When it comes to celebrating, food plays a critical and cross-cultural role. While it may consist of different cuisine depending on where you go, the meal around which families and friends gather unites the world on common ground. Different food comes to mean different things a holiday meal, a weekly favorite, or a family recipe. But when it comes to celebrating sweetly especially in the United States nothing beats a chocolate cake.
For chocolate cake connoisseurs the preferences are as unique as the people themselves chocolate cake frosted with vanilla icing, chocolate icing, whip cream, you name it. Each family may have a special recipe handed down from generation to generation or a favorite bakery where the chocolate cake cant be missed. Todays ever-increasing popularity of chocolate cake would surely have been a surprise to those who first attempted its creation.
The making of cakes in a general nature began shortly after flour was discovered. The recipe then was much less sweet than it is today displaying more of a bread-like quality. Initially, added to the flour, were milk and yeast; honey or dried fruit were added to sweeten the mixture. Today, eggs...