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by Emily Dwass
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From the L.A. Times
 During a recent visit with my sister and her family, we were invited to
share Shabbat dinner with our cousins. My sister volunteered to bring
dessert. Because the meal would be kosher, with chicken the main
course, that meant making something parve -- without any dairy ingredients -- in keeping with the Jewish dietary restriction not to mix meat and milk.
Normally in this circumstance I would bake a nondairy classic like
mandelbrot. But my sister flipped through cookbooks and stumbled on a
recipe for something called Crazy Chocolate Cake.
"This can't be right," I commented, after wondering about the
ingredients. Or, rather, the missing ingredients. Not only was there no
butter, there also were no eggs. Oh, and no mixer was required either.
Time was running out, my nephews needed to be picked up, so we decided
to go for it. In fact, we went for it big-time; there would be a crowd
at dinner so we doubled the recipe.
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