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Icebox matzo cake recipe - Easy no bake dessert to serve during Passover Seder. Combine layers or matzos dipped in wine and top with a creamy chocolate icing.

Icebox Matzo Cake

Icebox matzo cake recipe - Easy no bake dessert to serve during Passover Seder. Combine layers or matzos dipped in wine and top with chocolate icing.

Course Dessert
Cuisine Jewish
Prep Time 30 minutes
Chilling Tine 4 hours
Total Time 30 minutes
Servings 12
Calories 326 kcal
Author Tiffany Bendayan

Ingredients

For the Chocolate Cream

  • 1 cup butter or margarine (2 sticks) melted
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 6 oz semi-sweet chocolate
  • 1 teaspoon rum extract optional
  • 1 teaspoon milk or soy milk
  • 1 teaspoon prepared coffee

For Assembly

  • 1 1/2 boxes Matzos
  • 2 cups Kosher wine or grape juice placed in a shallow dish
US Customary - Metric

Instructions

To make the chocolate cream:

  1. Using a standing mixer, combine the butter, sugar, and eggs. Mix until creamy

  2. In a small saucepan melt the chocolate with the milk, coffee and rum extract

  3. Combine chocolate with the butter mixture until combined.

To Assemble the Cake:

  1. Use a cookie sheet fitted with a baking rack to catch the drippings

  2. Dip a matzo in the wine and place on the cookie sheet. Spread a little of the chocolate cream.

  3. Continue with remaining matzos.

  4. Top with the rest of the chocolate cream covering the sides.

  5. Place in the fridge overnight or for a few hours until cake is set

  6. Enjoy

Nutrition Facts
Icebox Matzo Cake
Amount Per Serving
Calories 326 Calories from Fat 189
% Daily Value*
Fat 21g32%
Saturated Fat 13g81%
Cholesterol 68mg23%
Sodium 149mg6%
Potassium 134mg4%
Carbohydrates 25g8%
Fiber 1g4%
Sugar 22g24%
Protein 2g4%
Vitamin A 520IU10%
Calcium 21mg2%
Iron 1.2mg7%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.