Interesting Psak from Rav Ovadia Yosef: Pesach rolls

Rav Ovadia Yosef was asked about eating "gebrokchts" and making cakes and rolls and stuff from matza meal that looks like regular rolls and cakes.

Rav Yosef says Sefardim and most Ashkenazim eat "Matza Shruya", aka "Gebrokchts", and it was mostly the Hassidic communities that stopped eating matza shruya as a chumra.

As far as the Pesach cakes and rolls made from matza meal, Rav Ovadia said that there is an opinion of a sefardi posek that disallowed it based on "maaris ayin", as people will see the cakes and not realize they are not chametz as they look just like the chametz cakes. Most poskim however have allowed it, and we do not find any such decree against it from the Geamara, so we should not make our own decree against it.
(source: Kikar)

I hate Pesach cakes anyway, including the ones made from matza meal. And why go through all that hard work to make something that is barely edible anyway...

In my opinion it would have been no loss had he prohibited it, but I agree (as if he needs my agreement) that it is allowed. I personally don't like it as it doesn't "feel" pesahdike (aside form the taste), but everyone gets that warm fuzzy feeling based on the foods they are familiar with from when they were growing up, so that is a very subjective taste.