Ebingers blackout cake

Everyone needs an easy go-to chocolate birthday cake recipe to whip up for every occasion! This cake is moist, fudgy, and perfectly delicious!

The legend, the recipe, the famous Brooklyn Blackout Cake. This is the chocolatey, moist cake from the popular Brooklyn bakery that disappeared in 1972.

I don't remember where I got this recipe, but it is supposed to be the original Ebinger's recipe that I remember from my Brooklyn childhood.

A Blackout Cake is known for it's filling of chocolate pudding. Shirl's Brooklyn Blackout Cake has four main components: Devil's Food Sheet Cake, Old-Fashioned Chocolate Pudding for the filling, Bittersweet Chocolate Glaze for the icing on the cake, and fine chocolate cake crumbs that completely cover the cake. This may seem daunting, but assembly of the cake will be easy if you make the components ahead of time, the day before or even several days before.The Devil's Food Cake recipe is like…

Ebinger's, a lost-but-not-forgotten Brooklyn bakery, made their original version of this cake famous. Our recipe, based on the spirit of Blackout Cake if not its exact ingredients, marries a moist chocolate layer cake with rich, pudding-like filling and thick ganache icing — plus Ebinger's trademark cake-crumb coating.

Behold the beloved Brooklyn blackout cake—a dark chocolate layer cake bearing chocolate pudding inside and out, and crowned with chocolate cake crumbs.

Calling all chocoholics! This seriously is, hands down, without question, the best chocolate cake you’ll ever eat. This World War II-era cake was made famous by a bakery chain out of Brooklyn, New York called Ebinger’s.

Lost Foods of New York City is a column that celebrates the food and drink that once fed the city, but have disappeared.

Our version of legendary Brooklyn Blackout Cake boasts three layers of rich, moist chocolate cake, two of creamy chocolate pudding, and fudgy ganache frosting.

This chocolate blackout cake is a recreation of the famous cake from Ebinger's bakery in Brooklyn.