Welcome to Passover, where everything is a potato and there is nothing else to eat.

So, I decided to share my favorite Matzha recipe and my favorite cake recipe (yes, you’ve read this right! Cake!)

The first recipe will be good as a dinner (or lunch… or breakfast really.)

So, what do you need for the matzha?

1. 4 wet matzahs
2. 3 different kind of shredded cheese
3. Toppings/fillings
4. Oven pan

Set your ovens to bake at 350 F. Take 2 wet matzah, and lay it over an oven pan, spread cheese all over it (and I mean do not leave a corner untouched by cheese), add your toppings (my favorites are green olives and hard boiled eggs), add some more cheese (it’ll make the 2 matzah layers stick) and then put the 2 other matzah on top (you can add more cheese).

Put in the oven until all the cheese has melted.

Serve hot with a salad on the side (because something has to be healthy during this holiday).

The second recipe is a dessert. It’s chocolate heaven and I recommend not using a sweet frosting – because there is such a thing as too sweet, and no you do not want to experience it! (side note: it is not my recipe, I saved it from Pinterest)

So’ what do we need:

• 4 ounces fine-quality bittersweet chocolate (not unsweetened)
• 1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 3 large eggs
• 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder plus additional for sprinkling

Preheat oven to 375°F and butter an 8-inch round baking pan. Line bottom with a round of wax paper and butter paper.

Chop chocolate into small pieces. In a double boiler or metal bowl set over a saucepan of barely simmering water melt chocolate with butter, stirring, until smooth. Remove top of double boiler or bowl from heat and whisk sugar into chocolate mixture. Add eggs and whisk well. Sift 1/2 cup cocoa powder over chocolate mixture and whisk until just combined. Pour batter into pan and bake in middle of oven 25 minutes, or until top has formed a thin crust. Cool cake in pan on a rack 5 minutes and invert onto a serving plate.

Dust cake with additional cocoa powder and serve with sorbet if desired. (Cake keeps, after being cooled completely, in an airtight container, 1 week.)

Have a delicious Passover!

Until next time…

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