Can Passover and Easter Candies Ever Be Friends?

Passover and Easter typically fall on the same weekend, but while Jewish people give up their bread and anything else that's leavened, Easter peeps are for Easter peeps - who also get chocolate Easter eggs.

Making me a little jealous, because who doesn't love chocolate Easter eggs?

The fact is that Easter and Passover candies are completely, structurally opposed to each other and can never, ever, ever be eaten in the same space. Unless?

Unless. 

You stumble into an intermarriage - or an Easter-inclined neighbor's house.

When my son was little, my husband used to hide chocolate eggs for him all around the house. While it wasn't exactly the most kosher-for-Passover tradition, I allowed it on the grounds that it was a way for Pete for share his tradition with us. 

AND because. Who doesn't love chocolate Easter eggs? 

So of course, I could sneak them into my dessert after a day of matzah and roast chicken.

These days, we don't have those chocolate eggs, since Josh is well past the age where he would go hunting for them. And I can hardly ask for them, can I?

What I can do, though, is tell you my favorite: the eggs that tasted like malted milk balls. 

And because I'm missing them, I found some recommendations for Easter Egg candies that are worth waiting for all year.

Now for the Passover candies, chocolates are usually fine, but most of us end up eating macaroons, especially those of us who are not gourmet cooks or foodies and who have barely three minutes to turn around, let alone think about baking for this or any other holiday.

This year I bought the Manischewitz pistachio orange and my staple, chocolate chip, but in truth they're much better when you bake your own. There was a place called Tova's All Natural, but it closed, and it's not all that easy to find ready-made kosher-for Passover macaroons.

I did a little digging, though, and found Magnolia, which seems to be offering some interesting macaroons, even though they are pretty spendy. 

Streit's macaroons also seem to be available too, and I for one am always happy when I see Streit's is still around and hasn't been eaten by the (ahem!) other ubiquitous Passover company that is everywhere, in every store, every year.

Intriguingly, I also discovered Gefen's macaroons, which made me want to try them next year, when I haven't spent every penny of my paycheck on Passover.

Then again, maybe I'll go back to Passover chocolate this year (and yes, I'm choosing Godiva because it's my fantasy, not yours). Besides, if I close my eyes, I can almost pretend it's a chocolate Easter egg. 

Macaroon photo: slgckgc