Kladdkaka Kladdkaka Kladdkaka (lit. Gooey/messy cake but more commonly known as "chocolate mud cake") is a type of Swedish cake. This dense sticky chocolate cake is similar to a brownie and has a soft and gooey center. It is sometimes eaten with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream and raspberries. The origin of the cake is uncertain, but it may have been inspired by the brownie or a French chocolate cake recipe; one theory is that it originated during World War 2, when baking soda was difficult to get hold of in Sweden, but it may also have been invented as
Icebox cake dish’s popularity, companies that manufactured ingredients for the cake, such as condensed milk and wafer cookies, began printing “back of the box” recipes. A variation of icebox cake is made using pudding (usually chocolate) and graham crackers or vanilla wafers layered in a square or rectangular baking dish. Ernestine Emanuel, an Italian immigrant from New York, has been credited with creating the graham cracker version. She had originally created the cake after having graham crackers with chocolate pudding, while on her honeymoon in Atlantic City, NJ. Additional variations include alternating layers of chocolate and vanilla pudding, or the addition of