These Passover Chocolate Chip Cookies are now a “holiday classic,” made with love every Seder to share with family and friends. It’s such a simple recipe, but somehow magical. The combination of matzo, brown sugar, butter, honey and vanilla creates a cookie that tastes every bit as good as a traditional flour cookie. Read through the comments if you don’t believe me! This recipe is a keeper.
This recipe his always a popular one on my site during the lead up to Passover, so I felt it deserved fresh new photos. I originally obtained the recipe from an organization called the Jewish Outreach Institute (no longer in existence) and their “Mother’s Circle Cookbook,” which shared recipes from women of various backgrounds raising Jewish children. It was submitted to the book by Mother’s Circle member Kathy Kersul-Wiener. Of the recipe, she writes:
After several years of suffering through store-bought Passover “treats,” I decided that I’d better learn to make them myself. I think the secret to this recipe is that the chocolate chips overwhelm the matzo.
These cookies are chocolatey, buttery and decadent, I would even go as far as saying they are the BEST Passover cookies. The original recipe calls for 3 cups of chocolate chips, which made the cookies too sweet for my taste. I have adapted the recipe by reducing the amount of chocolate chips to 2 cups, which is more than enough chocolate for our family’s taste.
For those of you wondering what matzo cake meal is, it’s simply matzo that has been ground very fine into a powdery texture. Most grocers with a kosher or jewish food section carry it during Passover. If you can’t find it, just grind up some matzo meal in your food processor until it becomes powdery like flour.
All of the other ingredients should be pretty easy to find. Enjoy, and Chag Sameach – Happy Passover!
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Passover Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter (2 sticks)
- 1 1/2 cups brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 2 large eggs
- 1 1/2 cups matzo cake meal
- 1/4 cup matzo meal
- 2 cups chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Cream the butter with brown sugar, honey, vanilla and salt. Add eggs and mix well.
- Mix in cake meal and matzo meal.
- Stir in the chocolate chips.
- Drop by tablespoons onto ungreased cookie sheets 2 inches apart. Press down slightly to flatten.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 12-15 minutes until slightly golden. These are great when slightly warmed, dipped in a cold, frothy glass of milk. Yum!
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After years of “store-bought” Passover treats I can’t wait to make these. I showed this recipe and the macaroon recipe to my oldest and to quote her “This is going to be the best Passover EVER”
were can i find some matzo cake meal?
These were delicious, and so easy to make. You have so many great dessert recipes for Passover. I had such a good time making them all this year. Thank you!
For my family I replaced one stick of butter wtih 1/2 cup applesauce and it worked out very nicely. Thank you for sharing this recipe it was a nice addition to our menu.
GReat recipe for Pesach cookies. Moist and delish. I made these to bring to my office and called them Passover cookies and people loved them! Boss even took two 🙂 They really held up and didnt melt down/spread in the oven. You can really shape them and have them come our uniform — a major plus for planning.
Delicious better than regular cookies, so moist, my kids loved them
hi! they look great!!
if i want to make them with oil instead of butter, any idea how much i should use?
These are by far the best Pesach cookies, ever 🙂 Fabulous when they are warm, and I didn’t even have the vanilla (so left it out) and made mine pareve! (Margerine & dark chocolate).. All those downsides on my end and even so, DELICIOUS! Thank you, rock on. Just can’t stop eating them!
Just made these with my kids (ages 4 & 9), and they are absolutely the best Passover recipe I have come across in a long time!! They don’t taste Passovery at all as most desserts for this holiday do. So glad I found your blog and thanks for the inspiration! Chag Sameach
Well, the cookies are a hit! I have been crowned “Cookie Queen” by my family. Thanks so much for this recipe, it’s AMAZING!
I am looking for a dessert passover recipe that is diabetic friendly/sugar free. Any suggestions? Do you think this recipe would work if I used the splenda/brown sugar alternative??
Just made a double batch so my son can take back to college. I didn’t try it with the applesauce substitution but I used light butter, so I did save some calories & fat!. They are yummy!
I made these last year & they were really good. Can some of the butter be substituted with unsweetened applesauce? 2 sticks is a lot. I have done that in the past with non-passover cookie recipes & they came out fine, just softer.
Jackie, I’ve never tried it with this recipe. If you try it, please report back and let us know how it works for you!
I am not Jewish, but have studied extensively and most especially regarding Pesach. I have seen chocolate chips which have been labelled as kosher for Passover. What is that about and is there really such a thing as non-kosher chocolate chips?
Hi Christi– during Passover, strictly kosher Jews will not buy any packaged product without a special kosher hechsher that indicates it is kosher for Passover. This means that it has been processed in a way that keeps it out of contact completely with chametz– leavened grains– and kitniyot. Jews who are strict with their kosher observance will not buy any product without a kosher hechsher (it’s like a kosher stamp of approval), and those restrictions become even more important during Passover, when no trace of chametz is allowed in the home. For more information on these restrictions, click here: http://theshiksa.com/what-foods-are-kosher-for-passover/
Year-round choc chips may also contain soy lecithin, a legume derivative which many Jews won’t eat on Passover. Can’t wait to try the recipe!
Very interested to know if you have a gluten-free version.
Thank you! I’m done suffering too! Always need another treat up my sleeve for Passover. 🙂
These chocolate chip cookies were the favorites of all who had them. The 24 cookies lasted less than 24 minutes! My husband even asked if i’d make them when it wasn’t passover! A real hit! Thanks Tori
These were absolutely delicious. I might even like them more than “normal” chocolate chip cookies! The matzah gave them a nice bit of a nutty flavor to them. I’ll definitely make them again, and maybe not even just for Passover!
Okay, my Dad said these were THE BEST CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES EVER!!! And that’s a high compliment coming from my Dad.
These chocolate chip cookies were a huge success! As an extra note, the Passover apple pecan pie was the best, most successful pie I’ve ever made! Everyone ate a slice and then we sat around picking at the apples and pecans in the pie dish! Awesome!!!!