Passover recipe: Chanie Apfelbaum’s Charoset Bars

Passover recipe: Chanie Apfelbaum’s Charoset Bars

Too tasty for the seder plate, these walnut crumble-topped date-and-pear bars make a perfect Passover dessert all week long.

Passover recipe: Chanie Apfelbaum’s Charoset Bars

You’ve never seen charoset like this before. The relish of fruit, nuts and red wine — it represents the mortar used by Jewish slaves in the building of the Egyptian pyramids — is one of the symbolic foods on the Passover seder plate. And its resemblance to actual mortar is probably why most of us don’t think to make and eat it more than once a year, despite its sweetness. Enter these beautiful charoset bars, created by Busy in Brooklyn blogger C…