This one-layer chocolate almond cake is both dense and light ... It's somehow both casual and elegant, rustic and refined, as appropriate for a dinner party as it is for an afternoon snack.

a one layer sheet cake (the kind of cake I like to call a snack cake), or cupcakes. A two layer round chocolate spice cake covered in chocolate orange buttercream. A 9 by 13-inch sheet cake ...

Meanwhile, place the chopped chocolate ... you layer the matzoh. Repeat the process until you have layered all of the matzoh. Spread the reserved ganache over the top matzoh. Cover the cake ...