Dessert during Passover is an adventure. Regular flour is outlawed, so everything uses matzo meal or almond flour. You get flourless chocolate cake, which is dense, rich, and the single best thing you’ll eat all week. It’s so good that even people who aren’t Jewish hoard the recipe.
Food Rules For Passover at Bertha Arrington blog
But beware of “Passover cookies.” They are usually crunchy, dry, and taste vaguely like cardboard dusted with sugar. Your brain will scream, “Where is the soft part?!” There is no soft part. Passover is about suffering, remember?
And then there’s macaroons. No, not the fancy French ones—the coconut mounds dipped in chocolate. These are sticky, sweet, and absolutely perfect. They’re the holiday’s saving grace, like finding a $20 bill in an old coat.
