Semi-sweet and German sweet chocolate are two forms of dark chocolate. German sweet chocolate is sweeter than semi-sweet chocolate because it contains a higher proportion of sugar. Semi-sweet chocolate is made by adding sugar to unsweetened chocolate.
Samuel German developed the chocolate in 1852. He thought this type of chocolate would be convenient for bakers as the sugar is already added to it. It is sweeter than semi-sweet chocolate and contains a blend of chocolate liquor, sugar, cocoa butter, flavorings, and lecithin.
German sweet chocolate is perfect for German Chocolate Cake. About 105 years after the creation of German’s Sweet Chocolate, The Dallas Morning News published a cake recipe by a Texas homemaker, Mrs. George Clay. She called her unique recipe “German’s Chocolate Cake” because it called for this brand’s sweeter variety of chocolate.
German Chocolate Cake combines a mild, sweet chocolate cake with a decadent coconut pecan frosting to create an absolutely irresistible dessert. This cake is actually a home-grown American classic.
German sweet chocolate
The word chocolate is derived from the Aztecs names for the tree, and for the drink they prepared from the beans. These words live on in Mexican today as ‘choclatl’ for the drink and ‘cacauatl’ for the tree. Chocolate was first cultivated as a crop, by ancient Mesoamerican peoples. They used cacao beans to create a frothy chocolate drink flavored with spices.
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