National Chocolate Souffle Day

National Chocolate Souffle Day:

Celebrated on the 28^th February of every year, the National Chocolate Souffle Day is a celebration of the most celebrated of desserts.

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Related: Other National Days Celebrated on February 28th:

National Public Sleeping Day

National Floral Design Day

Why National Chocolate Souffle Day?

The word Souffle is derived from the word Souffler, which in French means puffed up which actually describes the dish perfectly. Made using egg yolks which are beaten together with egg whites, the soufflé is a light cake and it is served as a sweet or a savory dish depending on the ingredients it is mixed with. Obviously, with chocolate being the most favored product across age groups, the chocolate soufflé has a special place. The National Chocolate soufflé day is a celebration of this delicious and amazing dish, which is loved by many.

How Can We celebrate National Chocolate Souffle Day?

National Chocolate soufflé day is a celebration of one of the most favored desserts of the world, a single dish that can be devoured both in the sweet and savory forms as per the preference.

On this National Chocolate Souffle Day, we bring to you some ideas on how you can make it a day about soufflé, especially chocolate soufflé.

1. Invite your friends and family and have a bake time together making the yummiest of the soufflé in different flavors of everyone’s choice.
2. You can also conduct a simple competition for the different steps of the soufflé making like, folding the batter or beating the egg whites into soft peaks, and so on.
3. You can also share your own favorite soufflé recipe with people around the world and the reasons why it is your favorite.
4. You can have a baking competition of soufflé among your friends and family and declare the winner based on the puffiest of the soufflé.
5. You can make your favorite soufflé at home and share it with your friends and take their feedback on what is the best they like about soufflé.

Share pictures and post your experience on making your own Chocolate soufflé on the social media forums and remember to include the hashtag #NationalChocolateSouffleDay on your posts.

Interesting facts about National Chocolate Souffle Day:

On the National Chocolate Souffle Day let us get to know more about Chocolate Souffle and soufflé in general.

• Every soufflé has two important ingredients, the first one being the meringue with soft peaks made from beating the egg whites and a flavored puree or cream sauce or the crème patisserie base.
• The base decides the flavor of the soufflé and it could be filled in with chocolates, fruits, jams, and cheeses based on your preference.
• A lot of soufflé makers generally bake the base first and then pierce it to pour sauces into the base, filling it up. The sauces could be a combination of herbs, vanilla-based, chocolate sauces, or a savory cheese sauce.
• Souffle Rothschild, created by Antoine Carame, contained real gold and was named aptly after the richest man of France at that time.
• There were more than 60 variations of soufflé mentioned in the Le Guide Culinaire published in 1903 by Auguste Escoffier.
• The dish is considered to be the epitome of French cooking and was mentioned as such by LouisetteBertholle, Julia Child, and Simone Beck in the cookbook “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” in the year 1961.
• The most expensive of the soufflé was the one baked by Alexandre Petrossian and Richard Farnabe, executive chefs in the US in the year 2016, and it was sold for USD 2500.

History of National Chocolate Souffle Day:

There is no specific date or information on how the National Chocolate Souffle Day came into existence and how or who started this celebration. But we do have a little information on the history of soufflé in general. The word itself made an appearance in The French Cook in 1813 in English. By 1845, the dish was part of the recipes in Modern Cookery of Eliza Acton. The first time soufflé, the puffed version, was made was in the mid-1800s when Marie-Antoine Careme baked it for the rich class in the romantic city of Paris. However, the credit of being the inventor of soufflé goes to Antoine Beauvilliers who in 1783, included this in the menu of his restaurant Grande Taverne de Londres.