Latinos are not only huge on coffee but also on what accompanies the rich drink. I mean, what’s better than having a Latino dessert like pan dulce or flan to have with your delicious coffee? To continue celebrating fall seasonings, let’s check out desserts that accentuate flavors like pumpkin, cinnamon, and apple. And hey: don’t knock it until you try it. You never know what could be your next go-to fall-inspired Latino dessert!
5 Fall-inspired Latino Desserts
Have you ever wondered what happens when you add pumpkin or apple to your favorite traditional Latino desserts?
Here are five ways to add a fall-inspired kick to your beloved sweet recipes.
1 Pumpkin Tembleque (Puerto Rican Coconut Pudding with Pumpkin): The famous coconut pudding can be made with a pumpkin twist to it. By incorporating a can of pumpkin to the traditional mix of coconut milk, coconut cream, cornstarch, sugar, salt, and cinnamon, the dessert highlights Caribbean flavors with fall undertones.
2 Pumpkin Flan: Flan is one of the most popular desserts in Spain and Latin America. By blending sweetened condensed milk, evaporated milk, eggs, vanilla, and sugar, flans are pretty easy to make. However, you can add a fall flavor to it by adding pumpkin puree and pumpkin spice, to ring in the cozy season.
3 Cinnamon Conchas: Conchas are staple desserts (and even breakfasts) in Mexico. Usually coated with a chocolate or vanilla flavor, they can also have a fall twist by adding a more cinnamon flavor to it. The difference here is that for the topping, you accentuate by creaming sugar, ground cinnamon, butter, salt, and vanilla together.
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4 Pumpkin Spice Tres Leches: Most popular in Mexico, Nicaragua, and Cuba, tres leches cake is a common hit among Latinos. So why not add pumpkin to it? In this case, you add pumpkin puree to the tres leches cake mix to highlight fall flavor. The cake is traditionally made with granulated sugar, oil, vanilla extract, eggs, flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and ground cinnamon. To add the pumpkin flavor, you add pumpkin pie spice and pure pumpkin puree to the mix. For the tres leches filling, you use whipping cream, evaporated milk, and sweetened condensed milk, just as you would traditionally – and voila! A pumpkin spice tres leches to die for.
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5 Apple Cinnamon Churros: Fall is not all about pumpkins! Let’s add apple to the mix. The main difference between a traditional churro and an apple churro is the butter you use. In this fall-inspired modification, use apple butter to highlight the season’s flavor.
