Highlights of Pesach

- An 8 year-old found the afikomen at the first seder.  Xander nearly cried.  Thankfully he found it at the second seder.

- I'd never seen "make your own charoset" before: little bowls of cut-up apples, nuts, mango, and golden raisins.  Brilliant.

- Ari loved helping me make matzah brie.  He broke up the matzah and beat the eggs, then chowed the whole thing down.  His older brother wouldn't touch it.

- Caryn gave me a new and improved Chocolate Toffee Matzah recipe.  It's been a major hit!

Ingredients
6 matzo
1 cup salted butter
1 cup dark brown sugar, packed
1 bag milk chocolate 
**OR - 1/2 bag semi sweet and half milk chocolate (if you end up doing half-and-half then just double the amount of the rest of the ingredients – Matzah , butter, brown sugar- use 12 pieces instead)
Heath toffee pieces( baking section)
OR -bag of Heath bars( candy section) chopped into pieces)

Directions
1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. 
2. Line baking sheets with foil and pinch the edges into a lip to contain drips.
3. Butter or spray pan with Pam.
4. Place the matzos onto the baking sheets, breaking them in half if needed.
5. Melt the butter in a saucepan with the brown sugar over medium heat; bring to a boil and reduce heat. Simmer the mixture until thickened, about 5 minutes. Mixture should change color and consistency, the color will be lighter . And the consistency will be very frothy looking. Ladle the hot sugar mixture over the matzos, spreading the mixture over the matzos with a rubber spatula or spoon.
6. Bake in the preheated oven until the sugar mixture is bubbling and thick, about 20 minutes. Set aside to cool until the toffee coating is firm, about 5minutes.
Place chips evenly over matzah. Place tray back in oven just to melt chips. You will know chips are melted when they become glossy looking..in less than a minute. take tray out and spread chocolate over Matzah.
OR- put chips into a microwave-safe bowl and microwave on Low until the chips are just melted (do not let the chocolate overheat or scorch). Spread the melted chocolate over the toffee-coated matzah.

7. sprinkle toffee on top. 
8. Place the baking sheets into the refrigerator until the treats are cold, about 30 minutes. Remove the matzos from the foil, break up into pieces, and store in an airtight container or plastic bags in refrigerator or freezer.