Chocolate babka, honey cake, rugelach—there’s no scarcity of scrumptious Jewish sweets. When Passover rolls round within the springtime, although, the star of the dessert desk is most definitely a flourless chocolate cake.
For the uninitiated, Passover (this yr, April 15-23) is the vacation that celebrates the exodus of the Jews from slavery in Egypt. The eight-day pageant forbids consuming fermented grains—wheat, oats, spelt, barley, rye and any meals or beverage merchandise that include them are faraway from the home earlier than the vacation begins. The one exception: matzo. Constituted of a mixture of flour and water, matzo is symbolic of the unleavened flatbread that Jews carried with them into the desert as there was no time to let the loaves rise earlier than they escaped.
A flourless chocolate cake, then, avoids the wheat situation altogether. And Alon Balshan’s recipe delivers a decadent model for the vacation (or anytime, actually).
