New York’s Best Passover Desserts
Just as Hanukkah sweets (i.e., jelly donuts) tend to pale in comparison with the sugar rush associated with Christmas, traditional Passover desserts (i.e., dried out macaroons) don’t exactly hold a candle to Easter’s candy bacchanalia. But this is New York we’re talking about, and our pastry chefs simply don’t miss an opportunity to take treats to the next level. So leave room on your Seder table for Zucker Bakery’s Matzoh Cake, Jacques Torres’ Shalom bars and Mouth’s dark chocolate frogs.
Breads Bakery
You’ll have to take a pass on their adored Chocolate Babka until the holiday ends, but all is not lost because this popular Israeli bakery is offering an entire, extensive menu, of sweets especially made for Passover. We’re talking Coconut Macaroons, Orange Marzipan, Financiers, Chocolate Poppy Cake, Brownie Cake, Truffles, Date and Nut Petit Fours, Matzoh Quiche with Jerusalem artichokes and a whole lot more.
Read MoreFrancois Payard
The famous French pastry chef may be best known for his delicate macarons and extravagant buche de noel, but he also puts his talents to use during Passover, crafting unleavened treats, like Almond Petit Fours, Flourless Chocolate Walnut Cookies, a Flourless Chocolate Cake crested with white cocoa coils and confectioners sugar, and sheets of Dark Chocolate Covered Caramelized Matzoh, finished with almonds and fleur de sel.
Read MoreJacques Torres
Mr. Chocolate is breaking out his special holiday molds for Passover to create milk, dark, and white chocolate “Shalom” bars, along with Coconut Macaroons enrobed in white chocolate, and an entire line of dessert matzoh, in Chocolate, Peanut Butter and Wicked (chili flake-dusted) variations.
Read MoreZucker Bakery
As with Breads, Zucker is also spearheaded by an Israeli baker, which means their Passover offerings extend far beyond your basic coconut macaroons. So place your orders now, if you want your Seder centerpiece to be an ethereal Almond Cake, mounded with whipped cream and chocolate mousse, or a whimsical Matzoh Cake; layers of coffee-soaked matzoh flooded with a chocolate-halvah sauce.
Read MoreEli’s Market
The venerable Upper East Side market and appetizing shop has long been a go-to for gourmet Jewish staples, like bagels and challah, smoked salmon and babka, and of course, Passover sweets such as Orange Sponge Cake, Marble Cheesecake, Walnut Date Torte, a Macaroon Cake topped with coconut marshmallows, and an extravagant Mile-High Lemon Meringue Cake, made entirely without flour.
Read MoreTribeca Treats
Not only is this chic, downtown bakery offering assortments of 18 fluffy Macaroons, packed in their very own tin, but they’re bringing back their now infamous Chocolate Buttercrunch Matzoh for the ninth year in a row; sticky with 60% Valrhona, and toffee made from molten butter and brown sugar.
Read MoreMouth
The indie food gifts purveyor has compiled both sweet and savory holiday assortments, which sidestep established companies like Manichewitz and Streits. So kick off your Seder with “Exodus Snacks” (featuring sea salt-dusted popcorn and lamb jerky), and conclude it with the “Deyenu” collection, boasting packets of charoset-inspired Matzoh Caramelized Apple Toffee Crunch, as wel as Pate de Fruit in a Moses basket, gourmet cookies from Danny Macaroons, Candied Orange Peels, spreadable Halvah, and off course, Dark Chocolate Frogs.
Read MoreSchicks Bakery
Serving up Kosher delicacies to Brooklyn’s Borough Park community since 1943, it’s worth making a pilgrimage to the cloistered neighborhood for Chocolate Seven Layer Cakes, Praline Nut Rolls, Rainbow Marzipan, Fruit Strudel, Honey Loaves, Marble Chiffon, Cashew Brittle, Rum Balls, Lady Fingers, Cheesecake, Chocolate Macaroons and Raspberry Tortes — all of it 100% Passover approved.
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