He tells me that the reason he never made Blackout Cake is that he thought it was too complicated. He says the best part is the chocolate pudding for the filling, so I will try to make that extra chocolate-y. Since “the unlikely cake baker” never made Brooklyn Blackout Cake, and because they are no longer available, I’m going to bake one for him now. Here is Rose’s recipe for Chocolate Domingo Cake which needs no improvement.Ī nice big slice of Brooklyn Blackout Cake: We both still marvel at the idea that Bob randomly selected the most famous cake cookbook of all time and then picked out the most “favorite chocolate cake in the book”, according to Rose Levy Beranbaum herself, in this article on Epicurious about how she named the Domingo Cake. He would bake a Domingo cake and take it to committee meetings of organizations where he was a member he would bake a Domingo cake when family came to visit. Bob loves the flavor and texture of Domingo cake. Besides books, Bob is also a big fan of classical and operatic music, and when he saw the name “Domingo” attached to a chocolate cake−Chocolate Domingo Cake−that’s when he really started to bake. This piqued his interest, and while browsing through the cookbooks at his favorite bookstore, Rizzoli’s (when it was on 57 th Street), a brand new just-released cake book caught his eye: it was the Cake Bible (1988), by Rose Levy Beranbaum. He took classes at The New School, one of which involved some baking.
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This website gives a brief history of Brooklyn Blackout Cake including how it got its name: it was named for the blackouts during World War II, when everyone covered their windows with black fabric so that the ships leaving the Brooklyn Navy Yard would not be silhouetted and potentially spotted by enemy planes.Īfter he retired, Bob moved to Manhattan and became an unlikely cake baker, but his cake-baking adventures did not include the Blackout Cake (he always bought those), but they did include another chocolate cake: Chocolate Domingo Cake. Robyn remembers Brooklyn Blackout Cake being her father’s favorite (“he always wanted the first and biggest piece” she said) during her childhood Bob would drive to Brooklyn from Long Island a couple of times a year to buy one, which they considered a special treat: “chocolate heaven” as Robyn described it. What a mess she made! They were more worried about the missing cake than the fact that it might make the dog sick. Bridgette was a very big dog, and standing on her hind legs, she could easily reach the cake. His daughter, Robyn, remembers the time their dog, Bridgette, a big black Labrador, ate the remains of a cherished Blackout Cake right off the dining room table after Thanksgiving dinner. This tale starts with the Ebinger’s Blackout Cakes that my husband Bob used to buy years ago at their bakery in Flatbush, Brooklyn. This is a tale of two chocolate cakes: Brooklyn Blackout Cake and Chocolate Domingo Cake.
The Unlikely Cake Baker: Brooklyn Blackout Cake Thanks for following my blog: │ BakerSweetMaker, and for following me on Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest. So, in the future, I will be posting from Wellington, Florida, hoping to gradually regain my voice. I have since relocated to a warm clime, where my son and daughter-in-law, Greg and Alicia Gard, have graciously invited me to live with them. Those of you who follow me know that I used to post from Lenox, Massachusetts. Many times, he would buy me a little teddy bear with a Valentine sweater, so I want to say “Happy Valentine’s Day Bobby” and “Happy Valentine’s Day” to all who read this. He also loved Valentine’s Day and used to take me out to dinner to celebrate. “Bobby”, who will always be the kid from Brooklyn, loved everything about Brooklyn, from the Dodgers to this cake. Since Brooklyn Blackout Cake was his favorite, I am re-posting the recipe in his honor. My husband and best friend, Robert (Bob) Zagoren, passed away last August and it is taking time for me to absorb that fact. Now, I’m looking out the window at a bright sunny day with palm trees as far as you can see my phone says 78, with a high of 80 today. A year ago I could look out my kitchen window at a snow-covered garden with the thermometer on the outside of the window registering about 20 degrees or less. I lost my voice for months, I’ve simply had nothing to say. My life was interrupted, so too was my blog. It’s been awhile since I posted to my website, but today I am re-posting a recipe that I originally posted almost a year ago (March 2016): Shirl’s Brooklyn Blackout Cake. Blog……Interrupted: Shirl’s Brooklyn Blackout Cake
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