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January 27 is National Chocolate Cake Day.
Laurel Watson has spent more than a decade as a professional chef and baker, and can chart the evolution of chocolate cake from its earliest known recipe - a butter-soaked guide to an early grave printed in 1847 - to its more health-conscious modern day incarnations. Watson is a professional cupcake baker has tips for how to make the perfect chocolate cake, though she says her personal preference would be to just eat cheese on crackers.
