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Chocolate cake filled with pudding
Blackout cake
Blackout cake
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Type
| Cake
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Course
| Dessert
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Place of origin
| United States
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Region or state
| Brooklyn
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Created by
| Ebinger's Bakery
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Invented
| 1942
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Blackout cake
, sometimes called
Brooklyn Blackout cake
, is a
chocolate cake
filled with chocolate pudding and topped with chocolate cake crumbs. It was invented during World War II by a
Brooklyn
bakery chain named
Ebinger's
,
[1]
[2]
[3]
in recognition of the mandatory
blackouts
to protect the
Brooklyn Navy Yard
.
[4]
After the war, the name persisted for a very dark chocolate cake and became common across the American Midwest.
[5]
Ebinger's variety was very popular and became a signature offering, popular with Brooklyn residents,
[6]
until the chain of more than fifty locations closed in 1972.
[7]
[8]
See also
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edit
]
References
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edit
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"Advertisement, Ebinger's Bakery"
.
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle
. February 22, 1908. p. 20
. Retrieved
February 18,
2022
– via Newspapers.com.
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"Ebinger's Bakery Still Expanding On 50th Birthday"
.
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle
. June 6, 1948. p. 20
. Retrieved
February 18,
2022
– via Newspapers.com.
- ^
Kappstatter, Bob (December 4, 1977).
"Mr. Arthur Left Many Sweet Memories"
.
New York Daily News
. p. B40
. Retrieved
February 18,
2022
– via Newspapers.com.
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O'Neill, Molly (1992).
New York Cookbook
. Workman Publishing. pp.
52?56
.
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Byrn, Anne (2016).
American Cake: From Colonial Gingerbread to Classic Layer, the Stories and Recipes Behind More Than 125 of Our Best-Loved Cakes
. Rodale. p. 170.
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Klivans, Elinor (2012).
Chocolate Cakes: 50 Great Cakes for Every Occasion
. Chronicle Books. p. 87.
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Kaplan, Morris (Aug 26, 1972).
"Bankrupt Ebinger Bakeries to Close"
.
The New York Times
.
- ^
O'Neill, Molly (June 5, 1991).
"The Cake Box From Heaven (Brooklyn, of Course) Is Back"
.
The New York Times
. p. C1
. Retrieved
February 18,
2022
– via nytimes.com.
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