Blackout cake facts for kids
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, in recognition of the mandatory blackouts to protect the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
After the war, the name persisted for a very dark chocolate cake and became common across the American Midwest. Ebinger's variety was very popular and became a signature offering, popular with Brooklyn residents, until the chain of more than fifty locations closed in 1972.
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