Chocolate Fudge Blackout Cake

Name: Chocolate Fudge Blackout Cake
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 cup (170g) semisweet chocolate chips; 1/8 teaspoon table salt; 2 tablespoons (25g) granulated sugar; 1/2 teaspoon espresso powder, optional; for enhanced chocolate flavor; 1 large egg, at room temperature; 1 cup (227g) heavy cream; 1 teaspoon King Arthur Pure Vanilla Extract or 1 to 2 tablespoons Kahlua; 2 cups (397g) granulated sugar; 2 cups (240g) King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour; 2 tablespoons (14g) King Arthur Bread and Cake Enhancer, Instant ClearJel, or cornstarch; 3/4 cup (64g) Dutch-process cocoa; 2 teaspoons baking powder; 1/2 teaspoon baking soda; 1 teaspoon table salt; 1 teaspoon espresso powder, optional; for enhanced chocolate flavor; 4 large eggs, at room temperature; 3/4 cup (149g) vegetable oil; 2 teaspoons King Arthur Pure Vanilla Extract; 1 1/4 cups (283g) water; 1 1/2 cups (255g) chocolate chips or chopped semisweet or bittersweet chocolate; 3/4 cup (170g) heavy cream

Instructions

Prep:30minCook:45min

Ebinger's, a lost-but-not-forgotten Brooklyn bakery, made their original version of this cake famous. Our recipe, based on the spirit of Blackout Cake if not its exact ingredients, marries a moist chocolate layer cake with rich, pudding-like filling and thick ganache icing — plus Ebinger's trademark cake-crumb coating.

Updated at: Wed, 05 Nov 2025 08:26:32 GMT