what Cuisine is Chocolate fudge cake? and what main would you have with this desert?!

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Chocolate first used by the Mayans, the chocolate cake could come from any culture that obtained chocolate from the "explorers" that returned to the "old world" with it.
What main would go with cake? What does not go with chocolate cake? Can't think of anything that doesn't go with a good Chocolate cake.

Depends, I suppose, on the specific recipe, but this seems to me to be American comfort food. It harkens back to the days of rural America, when people worked hard at physical labor in the fields during the day, and the wife worked hard too, maintaining the household, the clothing, gathering in food to be consumed by the family, etc. So the daily caloric intake was higher to accommodate an active life. The main meal was in the evening after chores, and would have included a slab of beef or pork (a roast) with seasonal vegetables (root vegetables if it was winter, plus some canned veggies like green beans), definitely potatoes mashed (with lots of butter and cream), baked, or in the pan with the pot roast. Water and milk to drink with the meal, and then chocolate fudge cake for dessert.

This very American menu can be adapted to our more contemporary lifestyle with a nice hearty beef stew with big chunks of vegetables and beef served over rice or with whole wheat biscuits or a warm, crusty artisanal bread. You could pass a green salad for the salad plate. Then pause after the meal is ended, serve coffee, let the meal settle a bit, and bring out the chocolate cake.


I grew up in a Mennonite farming community in central Illinois, 780 people when I left at age 18. One of my mother's favorite cookbooks was The Mennonite Community Cookbook, and I later acquired it as well. One of its more famous inclusions was an historical note that dated from the time when communities were very interdependent. If a man's barn burned down or collapsed under storm winds, the whole community came to his aid and built a new barn, usually in a weekend. The men had their work cut out for them, but so did the women, as you can tell from the following list called simply "Food for a Barnraising"

115 lemon pies, 500 fat cakes (doughnuts), 15 large cakes, 3 gallons applesauce, 3 gallons rice pudding, 3 gallons cornstarch pudding, 16 chickens, 3 hams, 60 pounds roast beef, 300 light rolls, 16 loaves of bread, Red beet pickle and pickled eggs, Cucumber pickles,
6 pounds dried prunes, stewed, I large crock stewed raisins, 5 gallon stone jar white potatoes and the same amount of sweet potatoes, (Enough food for 175 men).

This kind of diet is the source of the chocolate fudge cake.

For a main dish I would make something very flavorful & tomato based. Something Mexican or Spanish probably. Chocolate is an intense flavor so you want something powerful as a main course also.

Not sure but think it originated in Swiss Cuisine.

Anything and everything can preceed cake!! Pizza even! But keep the menu light up to the dessert. Serve Dark Chocolate Fudge Cake with coffee or expresso.

Any main dish can go with cake...