Blackout cake
Chocolate cake filled with pudding
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Blackout cake
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Type | Cake |
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Course | Dessert |
Place of origin | United States |
Region or state | Brooklyn |
Created by | Ebinger's Bakery |
Invented | 1942 |
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
References
- ↑ "Advertisement, Ebinger's Bakery" . The Brooklyn Daily Eagle . February 22, 1908. p. 20 . Retrieved February 18, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ O'Neill, Molly (1992). New York Cookbook . Workman Publishing. pp. 52–56 .
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Klivans, Elinor (2012). Chocolate Cakes: 50 Great Cakes for Every Occasion . Chronicle Books. p. 87.
- ↑ 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.