12 Passover recipes for your Seder menu
Holiday desserts to end your meal.
Date
March 26, 2026
These desserts, made without leaveners or grains like wheat, spelt, barley, rye, or oats, make the perfect addition to your Seder table, and many of them can be customized to fit various dietary restrictions, depending on how you celebrate the holiday. (Check the Baker's Tips at the bottom of the recipe pages for more info.) We've got dense and decadent flourless chocolate cake, chewy coconut macaroons, and even popovers made with matzo meal. You can pick and choose which recipes fit your meal and your way of celebrating, and find your next Passover dessert below.
1) Flourless Chocolate Cake
Flourless chocolate cake is a frequent Passover go-to, and for great reason: It’s unfailingly delicious, contains neither flour nor leavening, and can be made in a basic kitchen without any special tools. One reviewer loved it so much, they gave it “11 out of 5 stars.”
Get the recipe: Flourless Chocolate Cake
To make this recipe, you'll need: Guittard Bittersweet Chocolate Chips
2) Our Bakery’s Coconut Macaroons
Another Passover classic, coconut macaroons are the sweet, sticky, chewy bites your table needs. These macaroons’ intense coconut flavor has made them a perennial favorite at our Vermont bakery, where customers delight in their moist texture.
Get the recipe: Our Bakery’s Coconut Macaroons
To make this recipe, you'll need: 2 Tablespoon Scoop
3) Passover Popovers
These light, fluffy treats can go savory or sweet, depending on your preferences. Made with matzo meal (and without leaveners), they get their impressive pop from eggs.
Get the recipe: Passover Popovers
To make this recipe, you'll need: Popover Pan
4) Flourless Chocolate Nut Cake
Swap out the wheat flour for almond flour, and you have a tall, fluffy, flourless cake with a tender crumb that’s perfect for Passover. The cake is baked in a tube pan for easy slicing and serving, and it’s crowned with a thick chocolate glaze accented by espresso powder to deepen the chocolate flavor.
Get the recipe: Flourless Chocolate Nut Cake
To make this recipe, you'll need: Almond Flour
5) Sunken Berry Almond Cake
If you want to make an almond flour cake but prefer something fruity instead of chocolatey, opt for this berry-studded cake. Leavened only with eggs and scented with almond extract, it's a velvety, buttery cake with bursts of hidden berry flavor.
Get the recipe: Sunken Berry Almond Cake
To make this recipe, you'll need: Almond Flour
6) Pavlova
A stunning combination of crisp meringue, whipped cream, and fresh fruit, this is a dessert that pulls out all the stops. Use whichever fresh fruit suits your fancy: strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, and more will all work.
Get the recipe: Pavlova
To make this recipe, you'll need: Pure Vanilla Extract
7) Zingerman’s Chocolate Coconut Macaroons
For a chocolate version of classic macaroons, try this recipe from Michigan's renowned Zingerman's Bakehouse. Made with both melted chocolate and cocoa powder, they are super chocolatey, with a light, chewy texture from the shredded coconut.
Get the recipe: Zingerman’s Chocolate Coconut Macaroons
To make this recipe, you'll need: Guittard Semisweet Chocolate Wafers
8) Simple Stovetop Vanilla Pudding
A bowl of luscious pudding is guaranteed to please everyone. We’ve streamlined this recipe in a number of ways: There’s no fussing with tempering eggs, and the use of sweetened condensed milk instead of sugar (no grittiness!) gives it the silkiest texture. It’s worth breaking out your fancier vanilla for this recipe, too.
Get the recipe: Simple Stovetop Vanilla Pudding
To make this recipe, you’ll need: Vanilla Bean Paste
9) Chunky Hazelnut Meringues
These sweet, crunchy cookies offer hidden pockets of dark chocolate and toasty nuts inside. From one of our favorite bakers, Alice Medrich, these are a delicate sweet treat to snack on after eating.
Get the recipe: Chunky Hazelnut Meringues
To make this recipe, you'll need: Guittard Semisweet Chocolate Wafers
10) Flourless Chocolate Truffle Cake
Looking for another addition to your lineup of flourless cakes? Try this ultra-decadent truffle cake, made with a whole pound (!) of bittersweet chocolate. It's simple to make and supremely elegant, perfect for serving small slivers dusted with cocoa or confectioners' sugar.
Get the recipe: Flourless Chocolate Truffle Cake
To make this recipe, you'll need: King Arthur Round Cake Pan
11) Rich Chocolate Mousse
Of all the million ways to make chocolate mousse, this is our go-to method. It is streamlined (as in, fewer dirty dishes) and difficult to mess up, plus it skips the raw egg. Most importantly, it produces a rich yet airy mousse with an intense chocolate flavor.
Get the recipe: Rich Chocolate Mousse
To make this recipe, you'll need: Thermapen® ONE
12) Almond Cloud Cookies
The name says it all: These cookies have a thin, shell-like surface that reveals a moist and light almond-flavored center. A perennial favorite for all at our bakery, these almond cookies are beloved by everyone who has tried them.
Get the recipe: Almond Cloud Cookies
To make this recipe, you'll need: Almond Flour
For more recipes to bake after Passover, check out our best recipes to bake in April.
Cover photo and food styling by Liz Neily.
