Heavenly Passover delights 2024: 8 desserts not to miss

• Published date: 18 April 2024
• Author: YANIV GRANOT/WALLA!
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

Thus, the two most common sentences in the office corridors are "How did you dare to enter this room without something sweet" alongside "Kosher for Passover cakes are a complex matter." In fact, these two sentences are intertwined, chasing each other, and entangled in each other's words. The craving for something sweet in the middle of a tough workday (and at the end of a rather tedious Passover Seder, let's admit it) versus the memory of the past, especially the distant years, which is compromise, contemplation, and a sour feeling of sweetness that didn't do its job

However, 2024 mocks both sentences together. It definitely knows that Passover desserts are a "complex" matter that deserves attention and importance, but it also knows how to deliver. The performances are stunning, the flavors sharp, the balances existent, and those compromises have long since evaporated. And thus, even the "how did you manage to get here without dessert" is quickly resolved. With such a level, it's without snacks. Simple. Happy holiday, and bon appétit!

The Winner: Mimi

The baking and sweets group from the Nono House celebrates Passover with a relatively unusual departure from the restrained classic worlds, very much to be delighted, of course.

Its Passover collection includes luxurious cakes and pastries in the form of a pear-shaped torte with almond and hazelnut cream (NIS 108 for a 20cm diameter), a "Noble" chocolate cake (chocolate tart, caramel, and Belgian chocolate mousse, NIS 142) deep in taste and very, very embracing, and also a slow-cooked coffee and chocolate cake (NIS 138) that almost pushes the boundaries of its aesthetics but only for a short while. Yet, it's a hit. The inevitable action finally reveals walnut dacquoise, coffee caramel, and espresso chocolate mousse, mature and special, especially compared to traditional holiday desserts.

Alongside these, there are also groundbreaking cakes - chocolate-praline (NIS 58) coated with crunchy chocolate and hazelnuts, chocolate fudge cake (NIS 47), coconut Janduia cake (NIS 48) that mocks "Passover coconut desserts," and also a great winner in the form of a polenta orange cake (NIS 52) with sugared orange slices on top, which is somewhat Tuscan in its characteristics and highly appreciated in everything else.

Mimi

The Adventurer: Roladin

The baking and sweets network storms the holiday as befits any worthy occasion on the calendar, and under the (deserved) title kosher to stand in front of it. Wordplay is also a sweet thing...