No homemade chocolate delicacy can be made without using Baker’s chocolate. It is one of the most famous chocolate brands in the history of chocolate. Of course, as the name implies it is userd more for baking than for direct consumption. Which in turn means that it is a product that is often tossed into a shopping basket without a thought. However it turns out that it is actually one of the most interesting things on the shelf.

The Baker’s chocolate business began in 1765, when Dr. James Baker went into the chocolate making business with a young man named John Hannon. The company is America’s oldest chocolate company. Another interesting thing about their history is that their chocolate was also one of the country’s first packaged and branded products that was nationally available, as many other goods did not travel or store well back in the day.

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Back then, their product was primarily used for making sweetened chocolate drinks. This involved grating the solid chocolate into hot water. In 1870, the company came out with their first baking booklet. It was 12 pages long and given away with many products.

The most famous recipe to originate from Baker’s is the German Chocolate Cake. This chocolate has such a name because it was originally made with Baker’s German’s Sweet Chocolate, a sweetened baking chocolate that was invented by an employee named Sam German in 1852. The cake on the other hand was an invention by a woman in Texas, who christened the cake after the chocolate. The company is now owned by Kraft.


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