Succot Hop Desserts Crowd Pleasin’
Succoth
hops (like a Sock Hope) are increasingly popular in North American
Jewish communities. People decorate their succah, and then ‘hop’
or rove, in a happy group, from one succah to another, toasting
in the holidays in each unique decorate succah, and enjoying a
sweet bite or two.
The recipes here are to celebrate and host your own Succah hop.
They are appropriate to the holiday, can be made ahead, and are
a little different. After all, who doesn’t want to be the
succot hostess with the mostess?
Enjoy,
Marcy Goldman
Recipes:
Succot
Party Honey Cake - Jewish bakeries often sell huge honey
cakes that are cut in mammoth slabs. Those are honey cakes that
are just splendid, simply for their girth. But they are also something
you can do at home, if hosting a Succot hop/party. This makes
a huge cake but it also keeps for a good week or freezes well.
Prune
Danish Pastry Torte - This is a multi-layered extravagant
Icelandic treat. It is really cookie dough, rolled thin, in discs
and baked. Then you sandwich dried fruit filling (prune, in this
case but you could use apricot) and ice it in a lemon glaze. Nothing
beats this for unique-ness. Fruity and neatly eaten out of hand,
it is wonderful for a Succot spread. The pastry cookie layers
soften, as the cake ‘cures’ and the fruit melds with
the pastry, changing the texture to more of a torte.
Sticky
Chewy Italian Chocolate Honey Cake - This is more of a
confection than a cake; it is spicy, sweet and memorable.
