RasmaSandra
When I was growing up in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York there wasn’t a time that my mom or my dad wouldn’t purchase something from the Ebinger Bakery Shop in our neighborhood from fresh-baked bread to delicious pastries and cakes. Ebinger’s was a German Baking Company which began operation in 1898 on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn and soon grew in popularity.
They made many different creations that people just had to have. One of them was their fabulous Blackout cake which was a chocolate layer cake which you just couldn’t get enough of. No one ever discovered the true secret ingredients but this cake has been duplicated and perfected and a replica of it can be bought from Zabar’s.
As far as anyone knows the name of the cake came about during WW II when blackout drills were performed in homes in Brooklyn, so as to avoid silhouetting battleships that were leaving from the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Even though their baked goods were popular Ebinger’s went bankrupt in 1972. This happened because companies like Entenmann’s had started to mass-producing baked goods and Ebinger’s products like their Blackout Cake were still handmade and had a shelf-life of 24 hours.
Cake of the time indeed We now have Covid Pizzas doing the rounds (lol)
I just had contactless pizza delivery today Grace
I love chocolate so I would love to eat a piece of this cake.
A twinkle lasts 20 years.
(kidding it doesn’t but you are right)!
there was a German bakery in Cambridge Wisconsin when I was a kid. Everything in that bakery tasted like a cloud. Perfect, the only pie that was almost as good as my grandmother’s!
You teach me so many new things. (Sometimes I feel like I live under a rock.)