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🇲🇽 Mexican Cuisine

Desserts

10 Recipes

Tres Leches Cake

A light sponge soaked in three milks—evaporated, condensed, and heavy cream—topped with whipped cream and cinnamon.

Prep 25 mins·🔥Cook 30 mins·🍽Serves 12Medium

Flan

A silky Mexican crème caramel set in a pool of golden caramel sauce, a timeless dessert of Spanish heritage.

Prep 15 mins·🔥Cook 50 mins·🍽Serves 8Easy

Arroz con Leche

Creamy Mexican rice pudding cooked with cinnamon stick and lemon peel in whole milk until thick and fragrant.

Prep 5 mins·🔥Cook 35 mins·🍽Serves 6Easy

Buñuelos

Thin, crispy fried dough discs dusted with sugar and cinnamon, a traditional Christmas and Day of the Dead sweet.

Prep 20 mins·🔥Cook 15 mins·🍽Serves 10Medium

Cajeta Crepes

Delicate crepes folded around a generous pour of cajeta—a rich Mexican goat-milk caramel—and topped with pecans.

Prep 15 mins·🔥Cook 15 mins·🍽Serves 4Easy

Chongos Zamoranos

Tender curd knots simmered slowly in a cinnamon and piloncillo syrup until caramelized and silky in texture.

Prep 20 mins·🔥Cook 3 hrs·🍽Serves 6Medium

Gelatinas de Mosaico

Colorful mosaic gelatin dessert of layered fruit-flavored cubes suspended in a creamy milk jelly.

Prep 30 mins·🔥Cook 10 mins·🍽Serves 8Medium

Polvorones

Crumbly Mexican shortbread cookies made with lard and pecans, dusted in powdered sugar and melt-in-the-mouth.

Prep 15 mins·🔥Cook 15 mins·🍽Serves 24Easy

Mazapán

A crumbly, melt-in-the-mouth Mexican peanut candy pressed into rounds, iconic at every corner store.

Prep 10 mins·🔥Cook 0 mins·🍽Serves 12Easy

Churros Rellenos

Hollow fried churros piped full of cajeta, Nutella, or pastry cream for an indulgent Mexican street dessert.

Prep 15 mins·🔥Cook 20 mins·🍽Serves 6Medium