Name: Debra Marmor
Class Year: 1980
Country of Residence: United Kingdom
Why is this recipe great? What’s its backstory?
We used to visit our relatives in Israel every couple of years when I was little. In honor of our visit, my aunt would make this marvellous chocolate cake – my sister and I would fight my uncle for the last crumb.
We were so enamored of this cake that my mother eventually wrote my uncle (?!) for the recipe. Apparently, my mother and sister had difficulty deciphering what came back, so my sister kept experimenting and eventually came up with a version that seemed to fit her memory.