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Chocolate cake filled with pudding From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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] in recognition of the mandatory blackouts to protect the Brooklyn Navy Yard.[3][4][5]
After the war, the name persisted for a very dark chocolate cake and became common across the American Midwest.[6] Ebinger's variety was very popular and became a signature offering, popular with Brooklyn residents,[7] until the chain of more than fifty locations closed on April 2, 1972.[4][5][8][9]
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