I originally started making this recipe as a decedent treat for Passover, but it’s wonderful any time of the year a great choice if you are serving dessert to someone who is following a gluten-free diet.

Ingredients

This recipe doesn’t use any fancy ingredients. But, you will need A LOT of chocolate. Because chocolate is the predominant flavor, make sure you use a chocolate that you love. One of my favorite chocolates to bake with is TCHO.

Everyone thinks that their mom’s recipe is the best – and I’m no exception.

There are three main style of matzo brei:

It’s a brittle-like candy made by heating sesame seeds and a sweetener together, pouring the mixture onto a baking sheet, and baking. Once it’s cool, you break it up into chunks.

You may have had macaroons from bakeries or from a can [paid link] (I grew up eating these), but the homemade version is amazing.

What Makes These Chocolate Macaroons Unique

If my chocolate macaroons look different than other chocolate macaroons you’ve seen, there are two possible reasons:

Passover pull-apart garlic rolls are best served right out of the oven, just after covering them in fresh garlic, oil, and basil. Then, they are almost like little Passover popovers: light, airy, and flavorful.

Warning: In an act of bread-craving desperation, I’ve had some Passover rolls that had been sitting around for several days; at that point they resembled the stones used for building pyramids in the Passover story.

This chocolate mousse contains raw eggs, so I highly recommend using pasteurized eggs to prepare it.

This Tzimmes recipe (Tsimis recipe) is the Jewish answer to green bean casserole.

We skip the greens and the creamy soup and instead spend our holidays eating a sweet stew made with root vegetables, apples and pineapple (if you’re my mom), raisins, and other dried fruits.

What Are Matzo Brei Cupcakes?

I used these matzoh cups for matzoh brei cupcakes, but you could fill them with anything – get creative!

You won’t have to warn people that these gefilte fish cupcakes with horseradish whipped cream are not typical sweet cupcakes. The smell of fish and onions will do all of the talking for you. An adorable cupcake shape, however, might be just the hook that gefilte “fish” needs to be the catch of your Seder.

Gefilte Fish Recipe