12 Passover Friendly Desserts

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This is a wonderful collection of Desserts you can make or adapt for your Passover seder. Everything uses Kosher for Passover ingredients, or can easily be adapted to them.

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The traditions of the Passover Seder meal go back thousands of years, with core ingredients only rarely changing depending on certain factors, like availability. But the one thing that can be given creative liberties is the dessert! And they are all chametz-free and kitniyot-free! Rest assured, these are Passover-friendly recipes that can be served all year long and that the whole family will love, like the Almond Flour Chocolate Brownies or my flourless Basque Cheesecake Recipe. And just a quick heads-up, you’ll still want to ensure Kosher for Passover-certified versions for each of the ingredients in the recipes. Chag sameach!

Easy Kosher Dessert Recipes for Pesach

Check out the options you have for Passover desserts and treats the whole family will love!

Flourless Delights

Who said chametz-free desserts can’t be delicious? Because these take the cake!

Flourless Brownies on cooling rack 1x1
Flourless Brownies
Flourless Brownies are chocolatey, gooey, and rich gluten-free treats. Made with cocoa powder, melted chocolate, butter, sugar, and eggs.
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Pile of chocolate cookies on a baking sheet 4x3
Flourless Chocolate Chewy Cookies Recipe
Flourless Chocolate Chewy Cookies are a quick, easy, fudgy, gluten-free Holiday cookie that everyone will love!
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Brownies with almonds
Almond Flour Chocolate Brownies Recipe
Almond Flour Chocolate Brownies are rich, fudgy, and easy with almond flour for a soft texture and decadent gluten-free chocolate flavor.
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Slice of cheesecake on plate topped with whipped cream and berries.
Basque Cheesecake Recipe
Basque Style Cheesecake is an amazing cheesecake from Spain with a rich, creamy center, covered with caramelized sugar and no crust.
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Parve Dairy-Free Treats

No dairy around here, but still super enjoyable!

sorbet in a cone that is starting to melt
3 Ingredient Fresh Strawberry Sorbet Recipe
3 Ingredient Fresh Strawberry Sorbet is a quick and easy recipe that the whole family will agree on. Comes together in only 30 minutes!
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Easy Fruit Salad Recipe
Easy Fruit Salad is the perfect sweet and refreshing dish with assorted ripe fruits and honey. Perfectly cold, you can enjoy all summer long.
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Meringues in a Christmas box
Meringues Cookies Recipe
Meringue Cookies are light and sweet cookies made with ONLY 5 ingredients like sugar and egg whites, and bake in under 60 minutes!
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Candied nuts close up of pecans finished in black bowl.
Slow Cooker Candied Cinnamon Pecans Recipe
Slow Cooker Candied Cinnamon Pecans are a total breeze to make and will leave your house smelling so delicious. Try making these today!
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Pear with bite and red wine reduction on a plate with vanilla ice cream.
Poached Pears Recipe
Poached Pears are an elegant, yet easy-to-make fruit dessert with a red wine reduction sauce. Serve with ice cream for a special occasion!
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Cookies and Bites

These are perfect if you’re having a large Seder but some of them do require a little tweaking by swapping the flour for Passover approved options, or using more seasonal berries.

Coconut cookies stacked on a baking sheet
Coconut Macaroons Recipe
My macaroons are made with flour but to make them Passover approved, swap in coconut flour or almond flour.
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coconut dessert half dipped in chocolate
Chocolate-Dipped Coconut Macaroons
Swap the regular flour in this recipe for coconut or almond flour to make them Passover friendly!
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Close up of baked cookies with pine nut topping.
Italian Pignoli Cookies Recipe
Italian Pignoli Cookies are a classic item to find in Italian bakeries made with a rich, chewy interior and crunchy pine nut coating.
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A piece of bark with chocolate chips, and bananas
Chunky Monkey Bark Recipe
Chunky Monkey Bark is a an easy candy bark that's perfect for the holidays, made with white chocolate, sweet, salty, and crunchy toppings.
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tray of yummies stacked up
Coconut Cranberry Yummies Recipe
Try these tasty bites with blueberries if you can't find fresh cranberries during Passover. You can also use dried berries or fruit pieces.
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Once Passover is over, I’ve got plenty of chametz-filled favorites waiting for you! You can find plenty of options in my 40+ Ultimate Peanut Butter Dessert Recipe Collection, as well as the glorious flavors in one of my 25+ Easy Oreo Dessert Recipes. Let me know in the comments which one is your favorite!

Quick Passover Glossary

  • Passover (Pesach): A week-long Jewish holiday in Spring that celebrates and remembers the Exodus from Egypt.
  • Seder: The special Passover meal during the first night of Passover where the Exodus story is retold with symbolic foods.
  • Chametz: The name of the group of leavened grains like bread (including sourdough) and pasta are avoided during Passover.
  • Kitniyot: A collection of non-leavening grains like rice, corn (and derivatives), legumes, and peanuts, which are avoided by many Jewish communities during Passover.
  • Kosher for Passover: A special certification that the already kosher food is made according to more-specific Passover dietary guidelines.
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About the Author: Sabrina Snyder

Sabrina is a professionally trained Private Chef of over 10 years with ServSafe Manager certification in food safety. She creates all the recipes here on Dinner, then Dessert, fueled in no small part by her love for bacon.

Sabrina Snyder is a professionally trained personal and private chef of over 10 years who is the creator and developer of all the recipes on Dinner, then Dessert.

She is also the author of the cookbook Dinner, then Dessert – Satisfying Meals Using Only 3, 5 or 7 Ingredients, published by Harper Collins.

She started Dinner, then Dessert as a business in her office as a lunch service for her coworkers who admired her lunches before going to culinary school and becoming a full time personal chef and private chef.

As a personal chef Sabrina would cook for families one day a week and cook their entire week of dinners. All grocery shopping, cooking and cleaning was done along with instructions on reheating. As a private chef she cooked for private parties and cooked in family homes in the evenings for families on a nightly basis after working as a personal chef during the day.

Sabrina has been certified as a ServSafe Manager since 2007 and was a longstanding member of the USPCA Personal Chef Association including being on the board of the Washington DC Chapter of Chefs in the US Personal Chef Association when they won Chapter of the year.

As a member of the community of food website creators Sabrina Snyder has spoken at many conferences regarding her experiences as a food writer including the Indulge Food Conference, Everything Food Conference, Haven Food Conference and IACP Annual Food Professionals Conference.

Sabrina lives with her family in sunny California.

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