If you've ever stayed at Ruttger's Bay Lake Lodge you may have been lucky enough to have the dessert Bette Le Mae.  And if you ever spent a summer working at Ruttger's, you can probably attribute at least a few pounds of weight gain to having Bette Le Mae on a regular basis.  A delicious, dense, flourless chocolate cake - Bette is tough to pass up. 

Last week when I was looking for a recipe to make for Sophie's birthday, nothing sounded appealing and I realized that what I really wanted was Bette Le Mae.  I pulled out my Ruttger's cookbook and found the recipe, and decided that I'd give making a non-dairy version of this delicious dessert a try. 



The result was delicious, although not quite as solid and dense as the dairy version.  These differences might have also been because the recipe I used was slightly different the version I found on Ruttger's website.  I'm not sure which recipe is currently in use at Ruttger's, but I'll definitely try it again.  I'm pretty sure that I'll have plenty of taste-testing volunteers.


Print it: Non-Dairy Bette Le Mae
Print it: Ruttger's Original Bette Le Mae