I’m a firm believer in Passover desserts that don’t taste like matzah. (Unless it’s “matzah crack” – then tasting like matzah, slathered in caramel and chocolate, is totally fine.)
I’m also a huge fan of lemon in my Pesach desserts. (I love the tangy bite of a lemon merengue, for example.)
Which is why it was kinda love at first sight for me when I discovered this amazing recipe for Frozen Lemon Wafer Cake in the brand new Passover cookbook, Passover Made Easy.
Written by the talented duo of Leah Schapira, founder & owner of CookKosher.com, and Victoria Dwek, managing editor of Whisk Magazine, Passover Made Easy takes a modern approach to Pesach recipes – including this mouth-watering lemon cake.
Lemon Wafer Cake for Passover
Passover Made Easy, p. 104
Ingredients
- 12 egg whites
- 1½ cups sugar
- 2 Tbsp potato starch
- 3 cups ground almonds
Lemon Curd Cream
- 2 whole eggs
- 8 egg yolks
- 1 cup sugar
- ¾ cup fresh lemon juice
- 2 Tbsp margarine or frozen oil
Instructions
1. Preheat oven to 350ºF. Line 2 jellyroll pans with parchment paper.
2. In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat egg whites until foamy. Slowly add in sugar, beating until stiff peaks form. Add potato starch and ground nuts. Divide batter between pans and use a spatula to spread evenly. Bake until golden, 20-25 minutes.
3. Prepare the lemon curd cream: Combine eggs, yolks, sugar, and lemon juice in a double boiler. Cook, stirring occasionally, until mixture thickens, about 10-12 minutes. Mixture may curdle slightly. Blend mixture using an immersion blender (if using a standard blender, blend and return mixture to the pot). Whisk in margarine.
4. Using a spatula, spread half the cream over one cake. Carefully place second cake over the cream. Spread the remaining cream over the second cake. Freeze until firm. Slice into squares or bars and serve frozen.
Optional: Garnish with whipped cream
Their breezy writing style is a total joy. The handwritten font is endearing. And the fact that the soft-covered cookbook opens landscape-style? That’s just yet another indication that Passover Made Easy is most definitely not your same old Passover milieu.
You can order Passover Made Easy on Amazon right now for only $10.87 – and it ships for free with Amazon Prime or via Super Saver.
Update: The giveaway is now closed.
Even more exciting, I’m giving away TWO copies of the cookbook to two lucky KOAB readers.
Here’s how to enter the giveaway:
#1. Leave a comment on this post telling me your favorite Passover dessert (for eg. I love chocolate covered strawberries).
#2. Share this giveaway on your Facebook wall – you can do so by clicking the “Like” button above. Then come back and leave a separate comment letting me know that you have done so.
#3. Subscribe to the Kosher on a Budget Passover Newsletter (for all the latest in Passover recipes, budget tips, deals & coupons). Then come back and leave a comment letting me know that you have done so (or that you already were subscribed).
All entry forms will be verified. Comments are typically moderated within less than 24 hours. Duplicate entries will be deleted.
This giveaway is open to U.S. residents over the age of 18. The giveaway will be open until 11:59 p.m. CST, Thursday, March 14, 2013. The winners will be selected and notified the following day and will have 48 hours to respond before a new winner will be chosen.
Disclosure: The publisher of Passover Made Easy provided me with a cookbook to facilitate my review, and will also provide the winners with their cookbooks. All glowing opinions of this cookbook, its authors and this lemon cake are my own.
Good Luck!
I like to make anything with chocolate for dessert over pesach.
I’ve been making chocolate chip Passover mandelbrot for years, a big family favorite. In fact I have to make enough for everyone to bring some home for the week. I make it nut free since we have a few who are allergic, so it’s good for everyone to enjoy! Great for breakfast too!
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there is a caked called million dollor cake which is heaven!!!!
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My favorite is coconut-covered marshmallows.
I’ve never found a “can’t live without it” dessert for Passover. I wouldn’t mind finding one. But mostly I just make store-bought cake mixes for them what wants, and skip dessert.
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Favorite dessert–apple crumble or Pesach choc. cake w/homemade icing.
Flourless chocolate cake ! Yum!
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I made these awesome brownies last year that did not taste like Pesach! I’m really hoping I marked which one it was because there was another brownie recipe I tried the year before that was horrible.
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Favorite dessert is the traditional apple compote.
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My favorite is toffee squares…. can’t even tell it’s pesadik! So yummy!
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Thank you so much for this giveaway!! I don’t usually want Pesach cookbook because most of them are regular recipes, just modified. This one looks like it has some really great new ideas!
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My favorite Pesach dessert is coffee crumb cake. So good!
My mom’s chocolate mousse cake! Rich, fudgy, delicious!
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Chocolate Mousse Pie. Yum!!
My mother-in-law’s nut cookies (with ground hazelnuts and almonds!)
I love jelly rolls and seven layer cake made for Pesach.
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Favorite Pesach dessert would be cheesecake. I know I’m early, I make my cheesecake for Pesach. That and Mandelbrot. Yummy!
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My mom’s potato startch brownies! YUM!
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I make a delicious chocolate mousse trifle w/ Viennese crunch. Always a great hit! Would love some new ideas!
I love flourless chocolate torte, but don’t always have the time to make it. So sad 🙁
flourless chocolate cake! mmm.
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I love sponge cake with strawberry sauce.
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My favorite Pesach dessert is a moist filbert cake I make with a mocha ganache.
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I love strawberry sorbet.
I like plain chocolate
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I love Pesach sponge cake!
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My favorite dessert is my shehakol chocolate cake. Everyone loves it.
Love Susie Fishbein’s pesach brownies! Always a big hit.
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During the week of Passover, I like matzoh meal pancakes with sugar or jam sprinkled on top. It’s my favorite treat!
I love anything that is fast, fresh and easy.
Would love a non-gebroht cookbook for my gluten-free family for all year cooking.
Thanks you for trying to help us get organized all year long.
My favorite Passover dessert… that’s a tough one. Fresh fruit is lovely after a heavy meal. My mother also makes these chocolate chip cookies that are almost as good as Nestle Tollhouse – seriously, they do not taste like matzah at all. And a family friend makes what she calls “angels” – they are these meringue cookies with mini chocolate chips. The angels melt in your mouth. I’ve tried to make my own meringues, and they simply do not compare to the deliciousness created by our family friend. I’m already looking forward to them come shabbos chol hamoed (our families’ tradition to share that lunch each year).
Strawberry sorbet
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We eat matza crack. 😉 But I also love citrus-y desserts and my kiddos like meringues.
I love brownies 🙂
Homemade chocolate covered matzah (my younger brother makes it) with strawberry-apple-rhubarb sauce (we call it strapple-rhuberry or straw-rhu). Super yummy!
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My favorite dessert is a nut based chocolate torte passed down to me by friends. I am registered for all your eletters and forward them to others. This book looks great.
We love fruit and chocolate for dessert.
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The problem with matzo crack. is the margerine. I won’t use any margerine except earth balance.. Don’t think they are kfp.
Roberta – I use coconut oil during Pesach to sub for any recipe that calls for margarine!
Ms. Strom, do know of any sites discussing the use of coconut oil during Pesach? I can’t find any info on it anywhere 🙁
I am planning to post something today — I emailed the OU’s Webbe Rebbe & have their official response. Stay tuned…
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Honestly, I just love ice cream. But matzah crack is always fun.
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I make pink poached pears that everyone loves. You can make some white and some pink and some even striped for beautiful plating.
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flourless chocolate cake
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Chocolate flecked sponge cake
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Almond butter crunch
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Favorite passover dessert – strawberry sorbet!!
favorite is hard to choose. tie between lemon pudding, and strawberry mousse.
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I love the nut macaroons from Hermes Bakery in Toronto which of course I can only get when I am there….LOL. I also love the chocolate covered marshmallows from Zelda’s Bakery in Chicago.
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I am always looking for new things to make for Passover this will be great!
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Last year I made an almond cake that turned out really yummy, but usually we just go for a giant fruit salad 🙂
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Fave Passover dish: flourless chocolate cake!
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my fav is a flourless chocolate cake from the best dessert cookbook ever: “baking illustrated.”
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we made biscotti last year that were delicious!
I love seven-layer cake.
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I’m not such a huge dessert person, but I guess brownies are pretty high in my esteem.
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our favorite desert is a drop cookie made from ground almonds.
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I actually love homemade macaroons dipped in chocolate. they bring back memories of my grandparents and pesach
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potato starch brownies!
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I’m still trying to figure out my fave Pesach dessert, but I do love those Chocolate logs.
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Chocolate chip cookies
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We like warm compote with plums, peaches, and other fruit
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Anything with ice cream on top…to mask the ‘pesach cake’ taste 🙂
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Homemade strawberry ice cream.
We used to always have strawberries. My husband likes brownies. I’m hopeful it’s going to be fresh fruit for me this year!
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My favorite Pesach dessert is fruit smoothies 😉
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My favorite is a flourless chocolate torte with whipped cream
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I think this may be my new favorite, but my favorite is a chocolate raspberry torte.
I always make the Hazelnut Flourless Chocolate Torte that you can find on Epicurious. I also try to make applesauce.
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My favorite is Gefilte Fish Cupcakes.
http://www.cupcakeproject.com/2011/04/gefilte-fish-cupcakes-with-horseradish.html
I also like macaroons!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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Loads of strawberries and chocolate!
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My favorite Peach dessert is chocolate mousse pie with slivered almonds on top!
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I love chocolate chip cookies made with matzah meal!
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My favorite dessert are homemade fruit ices- you puree the fruits, water, sugar and I forget what else and freeze. So easy, delicious, and is really beautiful when you layer them with 3 different colors (strawberries, mango and kiwi are my fav). Also applesauce with pomegranates (if you can find, I live in warmer-weather areas so we can sometimes get them)!
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I love making “good for you berry truffles” from food.com – use any combo of dried fruit and nut, but prune/almond is my fav. For a dairy variation, here’s a something that’s easy and perfect: stuff roasted almonds into prunes. Layer about 1/4 of the prunes in a single layer in a pretty dish. Cover with sour cream. Repeat until done with prunes. Sprinkle with any garnish you feel like, and refrigerate for at least a few hours. Yum!
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Lemon mousse cake, definitely.
We love lemon desserts too!
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My favorite KFP dessert is apple crisp….made with a nut topping, cinnamon, brown sugar….yum!
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I love a good fruit salad on Pesach!
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Favorite Passover recipe: Last year I treated myself to a Pesach ice cream maker and made wonderful Pesach Parve desserts! Lemonade sorbet, strawberry sorbet, even a creamy coffee sorbet (I made up the recipe using almond milk), it came out fantastic!
My home made chocolate chip cookies always get gobbled up by my family on Pesach.
I have liked, I have shared, I have signed up. And I like lemon desserts and matza crunch on pesach. And my grandmother’s sponge cake with strawberries and whipped cream. Gotta love dairy meals!
Fresh fruit and sponge cake. Yum.
My own homemade lemon-lime ice cream!
My Mother makes an easy flourless chocolate cake all year long. It is the best.
Chocolatey, fudgey and melts in your mouth .
I even made it a few times as has my sister who never cooks.
Olive Oil Chocolate Mousse – the recipe was in the NYT several years ago and it is AMAZING.
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brownies!
I have a great apple cake recipe for Pesach that my family loves
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Last year I made a cookie called fudge bombs, which I also saw with other names – it is mostly powdered sugar and cocoa they are amazing!
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I love anything that does not taste like Pesach and is simple to make. This recipe looks like it may fit the bill (and the strawberry fudge cake, too – and buttternut squash foods). YUM.
Chocolate pudding and vanilla ice cream after a dairy/fish meal.
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Chocolate mousse is always my favorite 🙂
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This is my first Pesach that I’m making myself- so I dont have a favorite dessert. Yet. I hope to learn some as I cook for my parents, sister, mother-in-law and brother-in-law.
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Apple compote is my favorite.
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My favorite dessert is matzah toffee. mmmmmmm.
My favorite Pesach desert is the jelly fruit slices and macaroons I got as a kid.
My Bubby used to make the best mandle bread for pesach. In fact, her pesach recipe was better than her year-round recipe!
Chocolate molten lava cakes!
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I would always have to say….chocolate. But this year we picked a few kilo of lemons from our tree & the recipe above looks like a winner.
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My favorite Pesach desert is my mother’s Jelly Roll Cake! It is so good!
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I love Punchim for passover (chocolate wine balls)
I make a lemon pavlova that everyone LOVES!!!
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We make a flourless chocolate cake that is amazing!
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Homemade fruit compote and applesauce.
I love the coffee cake I make and pesadik brownies. Call me crazy!
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My fav pesach dessert is strawberry shortcake!
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I’m not a Pesach dessert fan, because cake shouldn’t taste like matza! I do like Pesach brownies, all year round!!
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I love making strawberry sorbet- I actually got the recipe from your website last Pesach!
I love making and eating home made maccaroons!!! YUM!
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I’m not a Pesach dessert fan, because cake shouldn’t taste like matzo! I do like Pesach brownies, all year round!!
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I’m not a Pesach dessert fan, because cake shouldn’t taste like matzo! I do like Pesach brownies, all year round.
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I’m not a Passover dessert fan, because cake shouldn’t taste like matzo. I do like Passover brownies, all year round.
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Fav dessert: my mom’s homemade ice cream. I couldn’t eat it last year because I was pregnant and it has raw eggs. 🙁
I love Pesach Chocolate Roll. Yummmmeeee!
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I made a fantastic pesachdig brownie recipe last year, which I couldn’t stop eating :).. I liked & shared on FB and subscribed to the newsletter..
favorite pesach dessert is chocolate mousse.
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I love chocolate drizzled homemade almond macaroons and mehadrin vanilla fudge ripple ice cream
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I make sorbet from fresh Manila mangos (the little ones), lime juice, sugar…. Yum, delish. And it keeps the kids busy since they have to immersion blend it every 30 min for hours ( my pesach ice cream maker died)
We love making chocolate chip cookies and brownies !
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matzah crack or anything chocolatey
My friend, Hilary, gave me the best meringue recipe — super easy. And my kids love them.
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Homemade macaroons and frozen chocolate dipped bananas!
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chocolate brownie
My favorite is Merangue pavlova- big merangue filled with whipped cream or ice cream and strawberries with granidilla dribbled on top. Yum
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I have a ridiculous soft spot for macaroons out of a can. I’m not even sure they count as food, but they bring back memories of Pesach with my parents and grandparents (z”l).
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I LOVE chocolate covered orange peels
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mom’s brownies! they are really fabulous!
I likechoc chip cake for pesach.