Mexican hot chocolate ice cream recipe to fill your pan de muerto for the Day of the Dead

Mexican Hot Chocolate Ice Cream Filled Pan de Muerto

This recipe for Mexican hot chocolate ice cream pan de muerto is delicious and easy, giving your pan de muerto a cool and creamy chocolate twist! When fall comes around and as the Day of the Dead approaches, homes, and Mexican bakeries fill with the sweet scent of pan de muerto.  How We Celebrate Día … Read more

Chancletas de güisqui recipe from Guatemala

Guatemalan Chancletas Recipe: A Unique Stuffed Chayote Dessert

This Guatemalan chancletas recipe is a unique and easy Guatemalan dessert made with chayote squash. Chancletas are sweet stuffed chayotes. The filling is made by mixing the squash with egg, champurrada or bread crumbs, sugar and cinnamon and usually topped with raisins or almonds. Chayote, a type of squash, is commonly used as an ingredient … Read more

Guatemalan garbanzos en miel recipe

Garbanzos en Miel Recipe: Guatemalan Chickpea Dessert

Garbanzos en miel, also known as chickpeas in honey, is a traditional Guatemalan dessert that combines the sweetness of brown sugar or panela with the nutty flavor of chickpeas. This chickpea dessert is a popular Guatemalan dish during Lent and Holy Week and during 1ero de Noviembre or Did de Todos los Santos. This Guatemalan … Read more

Easy recipe for manzanillas en miel

Manzanillas en Miel Recipe

Manzanillas en miel also known as manzanillas en dulce is a Guatemalan dessert made with the manzanilla fruit (tecojote or Mexican hawthorn). It is also popular in El Salvador where it is known as dulce de manzanilla.  This delicious traditional Guatemalan food is usually enjoyed during Semana Santa or Holy Week and Lent.  Today I’m … Read more

Best recipe for Guatemalan platanos en mole

Plátanos en Mole Recipe

Platanos en mole is one of my favorite Guatemalan desserts. This delicious recipe for sweet plantains in a velvety sweet mole sauce is a traditional Guatemalan dish you will surely fall in love with.  A Taste of Home: Sharing My Childhood Favorite, Platános En Mole Growing up in Guatemala City, I have a lot of … Read more

Delicious guatemalan barquillos recipe

Barquillos Recipe: Delicious Guatemalan Cookies

Barquillos are crunchy sweet cookies rolled into long cylinders. This barquillos recipe is easy to make! And if you’ve never had these delicious wafer roll cookies, you’ll surely fall in love with them. Barquillos are very popular in Guatemala and many other Latin American countries. These Guatemalan cookies are light, crispy, and delicious, perfect for … Read more

Sppoky Halloween Cocktails

The Best Halloween Cocktails

Halloween is not just for kids! If you’re looking for the best Halloween cocktails for your Halloween party (or want fun and easy Halloween alcoholic drinks to sip after trick or treating with the kids), this post is for you! From spooky margaritas and Halloween martinis to gory and gross shots, here are many easy … Read more

Guatemalan pepian de pollo

Best Guide to Guatemalan Food

If you want to try the best dishes in Guatemala, this starter guide to Guatemalan food is for you! I compiled a list of the best Guatemalan recipes you must try. You’ll find all my favorite Guatemalan dishes, from classic tamales to decadent desserts. Therefore, if you crave traditional Guatemalan foods, add these delicious recipes … Read more

Mexican chocolate flan recipe

The Best Mexican Chocolate Flan Recipe

Topped with fresh fruit, this creamy Mexican chocolate flan is the ultimate chocolate dessert. This easy-to-make Mexican flan recipe is a popular custard dessert in Latin America, made with eggs and milk and covered with a light sweet syrup. Also known as crème caramel, this showstopper dessert will impress friends and family, perfect for Cinco … Read more