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Best Purim Dessert Recipe Ideas (2024)

Kosher.com Staff January 2, 2024

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Whether you love to include baked goods in your Mishloach Manot or you’re hosting the Seudah, you’re going to need recipes that make large quantities. Instead of doubling or tripling a recipe (a no-no in baking), we’ve gathered delicious dessert recipes that make big batches all on their own.

From cookies, cobbler, and tartlets, to clusters, bars, and sticks, the recipes below are perfect for Purim!

And even if you’re just having a small gathering or sending a few Mishloach Manot, these big-batch recipes will keep on giving and giving. Perfect for when you’re in the mood for a quick sweet snack.

Please keep in mind that some of the recipes below contain nuts. Always notify your recipients if a baked good in your Mishloach Manot contains nuts or any other high allergy foods.

1. Krembo Hamantaschen by Melinda Strauss

Melinda Strauss gives the krembo, the popular Israeli super-cookie, a Purim makeover! With a graham cracker dough, fluffy meringue filling, and shiny chocolate coating, these are going to be the stars of your Purim seuda buffet.

2. Berry Coconut Milk Ice Pops by Kiki Fisher

3. Apple Pecan Pie Hamantashen by Sarah Faygie Berkowitz

You can use any flavor cake mix — white, chocolate, lemon, strawberry — go crazy! And have fun with the fillings. Some of my favorites are lemon curd with lemon zest, strawberry daiquiri, and of course, the one pictured here — apple pecan pie.

4. Caramel-Apple Trifles by Leah Leora

These cute and delicious mini trifles are loaded with cinnamon and apple flavors—a perfect treat for a sweet new year!

5. Frozen Strawberry-Marshmallow Pie from the Nitra Cookbook

A super easy frozen dessert pie with blended strawberries (fresh or frozen) and marshmallow fluff.

6. Berry Blend Galette by Chaya Ruchie Schwartz

This stunning and delicious dessert can literally be prepared in minutes with no mixer in sight! It’s my new go-to dessert when I’m having company.

7. S’mores Parve Ice Cream Sandwiches by Sina Mizrahi

I gave this classic a twist, adding an ice cream element, because as far as I’m concerned, ice cream in the summer is compulsory. Best of all, these store well and can be made ahead of time.

8. Coffee-Nougat Bombes with Crumb Crunch and Chocolate Sauce by Temi Philip

This impressive dessert combines winning flavors and has a dramatic presentation.

9. Hamantaschen, Champagne, and Strawberry Trifle by Elizabeth Kurtz

Champagne is celebratory and festive and the perfect flavoring for this exceptionally special dessert. I use the assorted fruit hamantaschen that are left over from every school party and mishloach manot in this recipe. Trust me, this takes them to a new level! You can also use chocolate and poppy seed flavors in this trifle. Add any fun ingredient you have in your pantry for layering, like crumbled chocolate sandwich cookies, chocolate chips or toasted coconut. This keeps well in the refrigerator for a few hours and up to overnight.

10. Unstuffed Hamantaschen by Erin Grunstein

Poppyseed or prune or one of the myriads of other flavors – that is the question (on Purim). What flavor should I make? What will everyone like? Well, now, you don’t have to choose – make unstuffed hamantaschen that your guests fill themselves!

And also, this is also a fabulous sugar cookie dough that doesn’t require fridge time or any fancy equipment. It can also be halved if you just want a taste.

11. Frozen Layered Log by Esther Ottensoser

Light and refreshing, the perfect dessert for any of your Yom Tov meals.

12. Lemon Mousse and Berry Tart by Paula Shoyer

13. Caramel Cheesecake Hamantaschen by Faigy Grossmann

Purim is coming, and — following our age-old tradition — we will be eating hamantaschen. Now, while hamantaschen have not gone out of style, prune and poppy filling just may have. Today you can find hamantaschen in more flavors than Baskin-Robbins’ ice cream! If there’s a flavor you can dream of, you can make it. Every successful hamantasch starts with a good cookie dough base. What’s so great about this one is that all it needs is a bowl and a spoon. For your fillings — use your imagination!

14. Mandarin Ice Cream Pops by Yehudis Mann

Both children and adults get excited over this refreshing dessert. The combination of the orange and ice cream layer make a pretty (no plating required) and delicious creamsicle.

15. Peanut Chew Ice Cream by Brynie Greisman

I don’t make this ice cream often, because I won’t publicly implicate myself and admit to how much of it I actually ingest by myself! Anything with peanut butter is a real weakness of mine, and if it’s crunchy peanut butter, even more! I know you and your family will relish this as much as we all do.

16. Mini Apple Pies by Erin Grunstein

My Bubby Czarna z”l, whom I called Bubby Bagel, made the best apple pie in the entire world. This is an adapted version, made in mini format. These freeze beautifully.

17. Parve Chocolate Ice Cream by Orlie Perl

18. Vanilla Strawberry Trifles by Rivky Kleiman

A beautiful presentation and easy to prepare. A winning combination.

19. Chipper Razzle Ice Cream Pie by Faigy Grossman

Peanut butter, chocolate, and salty chips? You bet! An outstanding dessert, this razzle pie has crunch and flavor that satisfies the “looking for something yummy in the freezer” feeling (if there will be any leftovers!).

20. Blueberry Cobbler Hamantaschen by The Bake Shop

These elegant fruity hamantaschen will delight all your mishloach manot gift basket recipients. 

21. Trop-sicles by Esty Wolbe

These refreshing treats can be prepared in no time – and they look as cool as they taste!

22. S’mores Trifle by Victoria Dwek

This past August, I wrote about one of my favorite moments of my summer vacation, up somewhere in a remote mountain lodge (it’s inevitable that dozens of Jewish families happen to find the same remote spot). Every evening after dinner, we’d take the skewers, marshmallows, graham crackers, and chocolate bars I had brought along and stand around the campfire, trying to get a good toast on our marshmallows. It wasn’t easy. We usually caught the tail end of the fire, when the logs were all burnt out, and there were just a few sputtering flames. We fought for position to let the weak flames toast our marshmallows. The best part was when the marshmallows caught on fire: real toastiness. When I tasted this dessert, I was back up in the mountains. But this time, I didn’t have to fight for the fire: because my kitchen torch is mine alone.

23. Chocolate Truffle and Candied Nut Hamantasch Dessert by Rivky Kleiman

This is not your ordinary hamantasch. It’s a flaky pastry filled with true chocolate truffle or fresh homemade nut filling. Serve with a scoop of chocolate ice cream, and it’s awesome! Thank you, Raizy Y., for sharing this delicacy with me.

24. Shortcut Caramel Cookie Pie by Shaindy Siff

A decadent and elicious cookie pie with scrumptious caramel and truffle chocolate mixed in.

25. Mini Dipped Sandwich Cookies from the Nitra Cookbook

These mini cookie cuties are bakery style classics. Go with regular brown chocolate for a black-and-white or Creation theme, or purchase colored chocolate melts to suit your theme of choice.

26. Hot Apple Cobbler with Ice Cream from the Nitra Cookbook

With its deliciously sweet crust and yummy apple-cherry filling, this apple cobbler is sure to be a hit! Whichever way you serve this, your gang will be coming back for more!

27. Fruit-Filled Tartlets from the Nitra Cookbook

These adorable mini pies will be the star of the sweet table! With dough that is super easy to work with, these filled tartlets are the perfect addition to your dessert repertoire. 

28. Milk Chocolate Chunk Cookies from the Dining In Cookbook

These absolutely scrumptious cookies come with a warning: no one can eat just one!

29. Strawberry Rhubarb Pie from the Nitra Cookbook

A fruit crumble with a sweet-tart filling and an oil- (not margarine-) based dough.

30. Rocky Road Oatmeal Cookies by Faigy Grossmann

The chocolate hides the whole wheat flour and oats, and which kid doesn’t love marshmallows? My requirements for this recipe were that it needed to be a one-bowl, no-mixer, no-margarine recipe. I’m happy to report that these are kid (and adult) approved!

31. Sour Cream Twists from the Nitra Cookbook

A yeasted dairy pastry with cinnamon sugar filling and simple glaze.

32 Date Roll Cookies by Sina Mizrahi

These cookies are perfect, and I don’t say that lightly. They are a bakery staple I grew up with but only love the homemade version. The tender shortbread-ish crust wraps around sweet, sticky date paste in a union that even chocolate can’t improve.

33. Fancy Chocolate Peanut Chews from the Nitra Cookbook

Peanut chews are sweet table staples at pretty much any event, a good recipe to keep on hand (or memorize, you’ll be making them so often). They can be made gluten-free as well, so everyone can enjoy them. The decorative chocolate technique suggested here is simple to execute and looks very pretty.

34. Apple Sandwiches from the Nitra Cookbook

If you prefer the dough to filling ratio of your apple crumble/ apple kugel to skew more heavily toward the dough, you’ll want to give these crumble bars a try. The classic flavors of apple and cinnamon, apricot jam, and sweet crumb of the dough are a welcome addition to any occasion.

35. Sweet and Salty Chocolate Clusters by Miriam (Pascal) Cohen

These easy-to-make treats are an incredible symphony of flavors and textures that will make them impossible to resist! You can adjust them to your liking — add any kind of chopped cookies, your favorite nuts, dried fruit of your choice, or even crumbled brownies.

36. Snowy White Chocolate Crescents from the Dining In Cookbook

These powdery, melt-in-your-mouth cookies are the perfect treat!

37. Cappuccino Swirls from the Dining In Cookbook

This melt-in-the-mouth, coffee-flavored cookie is a treat for everyone and a pretty addition to any sweet table.

38. Orange-Infused Honey-Sesame Cookies by Chavi Feldman

My parents dropped in to visit just as I finished baking these honey cookies, and of course I asked them to sample some. Both simultaneously exclaimed, “Mmmm, what’s in here?” They were surprised at how well the unusual blend of flavors came together to create a delicious twist on the typical honey cookie. Try them — they won’t disappoint!

39. Mamoul by Clara Fatal

These traditional cookies originated in Aleppo, Syria. The unique appearance is achieved by rolling the dough into a ball, making a depression, filling, closing, and pinching with special tweezers.

40. Flower Cookies with Halvah Filling by Clara Fatal

These cookies look like they come straight from the bakery. Notice how bakeries boast the homestyle taste, while home-based bakers boast the bakery look. This is the perfect shidduch between the two.

41. Peppermint Pinwheels by Brynie Greisman

These are even better than after-dinner mints! They practically melt in your mouth. An attractive and colorful addition to a cookie platter.

42. Cinnamon Palmiers by Paula Shoyer

A classic cookie that you can make super-duper easy by using store-bought puff pastry.

43. Sandwich Fudge Squares by Brynie Greisman

These squares are outstanding! They do take a little time, but they are so worth it. All my tasters went totally wild over them. They taste even better from the freezer.

44. Tuxedo Cookie Bars from the Dining In Cookbook

Made with real chocolate, not powder, these handsome cookies are a winner for any chocolate lover.

45. Speckled Chocolate Cookies from the Dining In Cookbook

A delicious double chocolate chip cookie.

46. Chocolate Mousse Bars by Brynie Greisman

Rich, chocolaty, and creamy, with a thin contrasting crispy base. It can grace any cake platter with chic and panache. Serve as a dessert, or cut into small squares or shape of choice.