Is it ever correct to make the bracha of "mezonos" during Passover?

Question

The bracha "bora m'nai mezonot" is usually said over food made from the five grains (wheat, barley, oats, rye, or spelt) that is not bread. I have heard people say that one should never say this bracha during Pesach because we do not eat or even own any of these foods except for matzah. I am not sure that this inference is true 100% of the time. Are there any cases when one should say this bracha during Passover?

A few possibilities that you could confirm or deny (feel free to use other examples):

• Egg matzah (allowable for Sephardim and Ashkenazi children) is made with apple juice instead of water. At the seder, a Sephardi would say "ha motzi" because the day takes precedence, but maybe not on chol ha moed or on the seventh and eighth day of the festival.

• A very small amount of matzah might not be enough to make a ha motzi on.

• If one used matzo meal to make chremslach (matzo-meal pancakes), the result is similar to a flour pancake that one would make a mezonot on the rest of the year.

It could be that the "never mezonos" statement holds up, but I would appreciate if it could be confirmed or shown to have exceptions.

Answer 1

As you yourself said, there are lots of possibilities to say Mezonos on Pesach - the classic matzo-balls are a great example.

Any cake made from matza-meal is mezonos.

Sefardim (and other) who eat Kitniyot also have rice as a mezonos during Pesach.

However, those who don't eat gebroks/shruya (i.e. those who don't ever let the Matza come in contact with water) and don't eat Kitniyos have no opportunity to say Mezonos on Pessach.
^{BTW: This custom was never heard of, nor documented, before the 1700's, apparently.}