blackout cake

Dark layered dessert

Blackout cake is a rich chocolate layer cake with chocolate pudding filling and chocolate cake crumb coating, named for its intensely dark color.

The dessert originated at Ebinger's Bakery in Brooklyn and became associated with wartime blackout drills during World War II.

She ordered a slice of blackout cake for dessert.

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Family

black, blackout, blacker, blackest, blacken, blackened, blackening, blackness, blacks

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Top 500,000
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Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G