Ebingers blackout cake

It's been over 35 years since once-renowned Ebinger's Baking Company in Brooklyn closed its doors. We set out to re-create one of its most beloved recipes. Chocolate Blackout Cake was first made by a bakery in Brooklyn 35 years ago. We wanted to create a version that could be prepared long after the shop had shut its doors. To achieve this, we used Dutch-processed cocoa for big chocolate flavor, and added cocoa powder to the butter we were already melting for the cake. This method—toasting…

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…

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.

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

Losing electricity in a city, especially New York, is not normally thought of as a delicious experience, unless of course you are celebrating by eating a big chocolate cake. New York Blackout Cake is unbelievably moist and chocolaty, with a filling of rich, creamy chocolate pudding, and a generous dusting of chocolate cake crumbs on the outside.

This blackout cake recipe is based on the original chocolatey, fudgy cake from Ebinger's in Brooklyn, New York.

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

A rich, moist chocolate cake — our take on a Brooklyn classic, the blackout cake.

Rubes on Instagram: "🌎🍰 Around The World In 80 Cakes TOP 5 SO FAR – American Brooklyn Blackout Cake 🍰🌎 Finishing up my top 5 out of the 50 cakes we’ve had so far probably doesn’t come as a huge surprise to many of you - it’s my dearly beloved Brooklyn Blackout Cake. It combines my three main loves in life: chocolate, custard and cake and I couldn’t be more thrilled 😬 SO YES, this one has a slightly unfair advantage with this being my recipe (there’s no record of Ebinger’s OG recipe…

Chocolate Blackout Cake ♡