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I was talking to a friend about some fun new Passover seder ideas and we started to talk about edible makot or plagues. What better way to liven things up and have some fun with the kids then to make the ten plagues into edible sweets or snacks.
Keep sharing your ideas for seder fun in the comments below.
Blood
You could just make red jello from a package and cut into cubes or put into clear glasses to symbolize the water that turned to blood as the first of the ten plagues or you could make this goblet of water that turned to blood for the Egyptians, but not the Jews.
Frogs
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Get a frog cookie cutter and make everything from Sugar Coated Marshmallows to frog kiwi or honeydew cut outs.
Lice
Buy some dark chocolate Nonpareils to symbolize lice.
Wild Animals
You could buy some wild animal cookie cutters and make Passover cookies or you could make your own healthier edible wild animal. All you need is some babaganoush, black olives for the eyes, nose and whiskers, mushrooms for the ears and pepper slices for the mane.
Disease of Livestock
Take some homemade or store bought marzipan (almond paste), roll it out and use cow cookies cutters to cut out the shapes. Splatter with some melted chocolate and if you like put some red marks to indicate the disease.
Incurable boils
Try some boiling tea in a glass pitcher or drops of dark vinegar in light oil like the picture above.
Hail
The hail was set to be like cubes of ice with fire inside. For our edible hail we put fresh pomegranate arils inside our ice cubes. Luckily they taste great inside your water too.
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Locusts
All you need are some Israeli pickles and toothpicks for this one.
Darkness
Give a sneak peek to your ultra dark, chocolatey black out cake for dessert to represent the darkness plague.
Death of the First Born
Even with the updates and all the suggestions below there was nothing I felt strong enough about to create and photograph, so for this last plague you are on your own.
If eating your plagues is not your thing don’t miss our Makot Matching Game
Thanx for the great ideas. For makos bechoros, I bought a skeleton cookie cutter.
for the last makka, my husband or one of the bigger boys sneak away and put on pj’s and come back asking for where moshe is!
the little ones get a kick out of pointing ‘Paroh’ to different directions and confusing him!!
That is an option these days, but I didn’t think everyone would be into that and I am also not sure where to find them.
Have you had them?
I haven’t had them. They get served up occasionally at the big kashrut tradition dinners put together by Drs Ari Zivitofsky and Greenspan. Also when there are swarms which reach Israel there are aficionados who go food collecting. Haven’t had the privilege yet.
Nope. But heard from a reputable source; they taste like burnt French fries…
Why not real locusts for Locust?
Symbolize death with gingerbread boy cookies. Use black icing to draw an X on each eye and a frown on the mouth. Do the same with the diseased animal crackers.
For Death of the First Born I use fruit. A round slice of grapefruit for the head. two long slices of banana for the legs, shorter banana slices for the arms, a slice of honeydew or other melon for the body, etc. You can give eyes, nose, mouth, fingers by cutting other fruit. Then I stick some toothpicks in to symbolize the death (and make pieces easier to pick up and eat). Not very time consuming, healthy and tasty. We have enough to do.
Love these ideas
Check out these frogs made of sweet peppers: http://thehomesteadsurvival.com/grilled-bell-pepper-frogs/.
I bought KFP canned Mediterranean cucs for my locust bodies. Thanks for the inspiration!
In contrast to your creating “edible plagues”, at our Seder we dip our finger into our wine and put droplets on the plate as each plague is read … and we remind everyone NOT TO LICK THEIR FINGER AFTERWARDS because the drops symbolize plagues and they should not be ‘savored’ by enjoying the taste of the wine.
Wow, that is a lot of candy!! Let’s see who can come up with an all fruits and vegetable list.
We are doing chocolate babies for the death of the first born (Economy Candy)
We are using clear rock candy for hail
gummy frogs for frogs
dark chocolate squares for darkness
non-pareils for lice
Fruit gushers for boils (my 14 year old insists this is just gross enough)
gummy bears for wild beasts
Red fruit punch for blood
thinking about chocolate covered raisins for locusts, not sure what to do
We’re doing a plague-themed buffet for the cast of Prince of Egypt, and calling veggie and fruit trays “locust bait”
Nice!
THESE ARE GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!
thank you so much!
great idea!!! love it! thank you! chag sameach
loving this neat game, thanks.
Oh I love this, great idea.
I am trying to do ice cream sundaes with the 10 plagues this is what I have for ideas let me know if anyone has any more ideas…
blood – strawberry syrup
frogs – gummy frogs
lice – white sprinkles
beast – gummy bears
disease of live stock – cow tails candy
Boils – cherry or the red hot candies
Hail / fire – Kosher marshmallows & Fire balls
Locusts – Zelda’s chocolate marshmallow locusts.
Darkness – hot fudge
death of the first born – sour patch kids or cry babies
My mother in law made the cutest makkos plates for the kids using many of the ideas mentioned above…and we decided on a squirt of ketchup in middle of the plate to symbolize the blood put on the jewish doorposts…A perfect way to depict the miracle for the kids and adults alike!
For boils, I am going to use marshmallows with dots of red food coloring.
Cotton Candy for Pesach would be fun. This is interesting.
Have been thinking on the last plague, dark colored cotton candy,…something transparent….to represent the angel passing over us and taking the first born, thus explaining both sides.
For an edible slaying of the first born, last year I took fruit leather and cut out little coffin shapes. Morbid, but it conveyed the message. For the frogs I made green jelly in the little plastic shot glasses, put a black edible pen dot on KLP mini marshmellow and cut a half circle for mouths from the fruit leather.
Great ideas, would love to see a picture.
I made chocolate and vanilla cupcakes. I put some shredded coconut to represent lice, miniture marshmellows to represent hail, got some little platic frogs, wild animals and babies to decorate the top of the cupcakes. The children liked it but the adults got a bigger kick.
I’ll come to YOUR house & we can do some of this WITH the boys for the SEDER. Then you & your guys can bring them to the event!
We’ll make it positive for them somehow…………..
d into a vegetarian, that might do it.
I think you’re thinking TOO hard for the death of a first born- while we have the Egg (Beitzah)on the seder plate to symbolize the offering, we all know you can’t have a first born without supplying some eggs. Seems to me the egg that is boiled and charred could be some (chicken’s) firstborn. Of course, if you want to turn your chil
We hit the dollar store. We bought a large clear goblet. We made red jello, poured it halfway, covered the cup with saran wrap and then tilted it sideways so that it became firm filling half the cup, top to bottom. Later we made clear jello and filled the other half (when it had cooled a bit). We put one straw in the clear and another straw in the red. It looked AWESOME. Pretty fast and easy too.
We found egyptian looking figurines there and painted red dots on them with puffy paint. For lice we sprinkled them with coarse ground black pepper. We made a graveyard in the top of a shoebox with egyptian names on the tombstones. Also at the dollar store, we found animal head figurines of a lion, bear and elephant. We got a package of small farm animals there as well and had half off them laying on their sides dead. We bought a selection of different plastic frogs. I can’t believe this, but we bought crickets or some kind of bug and we put them in a jar on the back steps – it was so incredibly gross – and so really impactful to think of them everywhere. Don’t remember what we did for choshech. We bought shower curtains with fish and ocean scene and hung them on the walls of the hallway to walk through the yam suf. Party city has and may have an ocean scene wall applique and/or tablecloths.
We tried a red candy in an ice cube. The candy melts and runs. We also used small ice cube trays and it melted way too quickly.
I would try a frame with hail/fire balls suspended from fishing line.
Instead of focusing on the Egyptian first born’s death, we can focus on the fact that OUR first born survived! so a cute note that says something like ‘dear *name of child*, you are always #1!’ on top of a rectangular cookie:-) & to decorate a cookie with the symbol of “#1”. another idea is to take strawberry jam and to put it on a rectangle shaped matzah (on top and on the sides), which represents the doors and the blood that saved our first born.
For the death of the first born i have done a cupcake in the shape of a heart or #1 frost with red icing and bought those little sword toothpicks and inserted. A little gruesome but the crowd loves them. One more for blood, i have used real plastic needles filled them with red jello. Nonfood items you can buy foam swords, be aware adults and children will break out in a sword fight. and for hail i use the little foam balls and throw them at everyone… makes for a fun seder
Agar jelly babies, a bit squashed, or mini-gingerbread men, and before you cut out the shapes knead some red colouring into some of the dough and marble it. You can do the same with cookie dough for animals.
For the jelly, you can even find some that is marked out in cubes, not granulated or in sheets, and use that.
Could you use rolled-up liquorice for darkness?
Great ideas …<3
Marshmallow lice seems hard, stick to marshmallow for frogs.
Okay, I do like this way of thinking, we are getting there.
I like the red hot idea more like fire in the ice cube. Still can’t get into the first born idea, but this is an interesting one.
what about making red ice cube – however you color them. each person gets a little cup with a red ice cube. let it melt. it would symbolize the waters turning red as the cube melts.
I like this idea, I guess you could even use red beets to make your own red coloring.
A great idea I heard for blood was to put a few drops of red food colouring on the bottom of a water pitcher and add water to it during the makos. I just cannot find red food colouring for pesach.
I have made makkos desserts for parshios vaera and bo, but never thought of how to do it for pesach! please be aware that putting food coloring or beet juice in water to dye it can be a serious question of the melochah of tzovaya (dyeing) so check with a Rabbi!
For death of first born maybe you can use a #1 cookie cutter.cut out a 1 in Mellon, or a cookie. That way your focusing more on firstborn and less on death.
Thanks for ideas! For hail, can also put a red hot candy in ice.
how about instead of emphasizing the firstborn death, some how emphasis the mezuzah that saved us?
How about lamb stew to represent the korbanot of the night of the last plague?
I love this! My son asked me to make lice marshmallows this year but the nonpareils seem much more doable. I am going to make the hail for our seder. I agree that death of the first born is a tough one. I will think about it and let you know if I come up with anything good.
Zeldas also sells edible Frogs as well as Locusts…lol
Zeldas also has Marshmallow Frogs as well as Locusts…lol
i don’t know if they exist for Pesach but the candy pacifiers could work or something totally out there – a broken egg?
This is so fun and creative!
Love these ideas!! Perfect for the kids
That is interesting. It feels a bit scary to me, but I guess this plague just is scary.
This is a really cute and interesting idea! About the first born, maybe something with size? Like making enlarged cookies or something to symbolize the oldest?
One more idea for death of the first born – – something to symbolize a doorway.
(Perhaps have the kids decorate brownies cut into a rectangular door shape. Or use chocolate covered matzoh for the door shape.)
For death of the first born, perhaps get a cookie cutter that is in the shape of a baby crib or bassinet. (I’m sure they must exist for all those that plan baby showers.)