COOKING CLASS: KFP Plant-Based Desserts by Emily Zimmerman

Name: COOKING CLASS: KFP Plant-Based Desserts by Emily Zimmerman
Start: 2025-04-20T12:00:00-04:00
Location: The Depanneur

Schedule

Sun, 20 Apr, 2025 at 12:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

The Depanneur | Toronto, ON

Passover is a bit of a culinary contradiction: both a feast and a fast. Jews from all over the world remember their culture’s origin by gathering to eat lavish meals together, but also by limiting their diets (sometimes quite a bit) for eight days. So how do we make delicious, indulgent sweets for the celebration, without many of the ingredients that usually go into a dessert? And what if you already can’t, or don’t, eat eggs and dairy?
Emily Zimmerman, The Depanneur’s OG plant-food maven, will guide you through three matzah-centric, kosher-for-passover desserts you’ll want to eat all year. Serve them at the family feasts on the first nights, or use them at the end of the week with your last box of matzah. Each dish has its own history and background, and delicious flavour profile.
Matzah and Almond Milk Buñuelos
This Sephardic staple is brilliant for dessert or brunch. We’ll make our own almond milk, and use it with broken-up matzah to serve up delicious kosher-for-passover doughnuts.
Matzah Torte
From Emily’s own French-Reform heritage comes this showstopper cake. Wine (or juice) soaked matzah layered with chocolate ganache and cherry jam, and chilled until it’s fork-soft. We’ll prepare little ones to bring home, and get to taste a variation made earlier.
Matzah Toffee Crack
This has become an American-Jewish standard. Caramel and chocolate drizzled over matzah, and allowed to harden deliciously. We’ll make a big batch to share, and folks can add additional toppings of their choice.
Tea, coffee, and fruit will be available as we sample our delicious desserts.
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$79 + HST
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Emily Zimmerman is a chef, community worker, food justice activist, cooking up deluxe, delicious vegan dishes and retro comfort food like whoah. She can be found at food events around the city and at The Depanneur hosting the occasional vegan Supper Club or Workshop. She comes from a large family of loudmouthed, pinko-commie, Brooklyn Jews, who relocated to Toronto 50 years ago, but still root for the Mets.
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