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Gluten Free Brooklyn Blackout Cake is made with layers of chocolate cake, filled with chocolate pudding, and finished with silky smooth chocolate frosting and chocolate cake crumbs.

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This post is sponsored by King Arthur Baking Company. Thank you for supporting the brands that support What The Fork Food Blog. All opinions are my own ♥ Blackout Cake, also known as Brooklyn Blackout Cake, is a moist chocolate cake with a chocolate pudding filling, frosted with chocolate icing, and garnished with chocolate cake crumbs. The original Brooklyn Blackout cake is from Ebinger’s Baking Company in Brooklyn, New York. Unfortunately, it isn’t a cake you can buy because the bakery closed in 1972. The cake wasn’t named after the chocolate but after the blackout drills that took place in...

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A Traditional Battenburg Cake

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  One cake which I fell totally in love with when I moved to the UK was the Traditional Battenburg Cake. This was not a cake which I had ever heard of prior to moving there.   There really is no end to the varieties of traditional and regional cakes and goodies amongst those fertile green and septred isles!  With it's church window appearance, delicious texture and flavours, the Battenburg was one of my favourites.   After the holidays we are firmly entrenched in Winter, and with Covid, this year can be feeling especially depressing to you.  We are all stuck...

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Yes, an Instant Pot Is Worth Getting

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Welcome to Cookware Week! We’re sharing our favorite cookware sets, accessories, and kitchen appliances, plus intel on how to care for all of it, the best recipes to make with every piece, and exclusive sales for Chowhound readers. You’re probably familiar with all the things the Instant Pot promises by now. Pot roast in about 45 minutes. Perfect hard-boiled eggs. Tender ribs and pulled pork in a flash. Cheesecake with no cracks in it. Steel-cut oatmeal. With an Instant Pot, these dishes are all possible with less time, mess, skill, and fuss. No wonder people still won’t shut up about...

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