Fact: The Birth of the Cake
When you think of dessert, what’s the first thing that comes to your mind? For a lot of people, that is chocolate cake – one of the most iconic and delicious desserts out there, with a huge amount of popularity and a long history to back it up. What you might not realize is that the first chocolate cake wasn’t exactly the recipe used today.
Okay, so maybe mahogany cake is still made today. But we don’t think anyone knew it was the first! It showed up in the 1800s, using ermine frosting as the first popular frosting for this cake. It was actually popular before cream cheese frosting was. It does look pretty tasty, but we bet this isn’t the first thing people think of when they hear “chocolate cake”.