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][5][6] After the war, the name persisted for a very dark chocolate cake and became common across the American Midwest.

[7] Ebinger's variety was very popular and became a signature offering, popular with Brooklyn residents,[8] until the chain of more than fifty locations closed on April 2,1972.

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