Lots of people think that German Chocolate Cake must have come from Germany, but, according to Wikipedia, it is actually an American recipe. German Chocolate was created in 1852 by American Baker, Samuel German, who worked for Bakers Chocolate Company. However, the German chocolate cake recipe was invented by Mrs. George Clay, a Dallas homemaker whose recipe, which used German Chocolate, was published in the Dallas Morning News on June 3, 1957, and the recipe became quite popular after that.