# The best Mexican desserts

Mexico's most representative desserts, from traditional bakery bread to party desserts, according to RPP, OkDiario and guides to Mexican baking.

- 53 votes · 14 items
- Jun 7, 2025 · Óscar
- https://even.best/en/l/460/the-best-mexican-desserts

## Top 10

1. **Tres leches cake** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — Sponge soaked in evaporated milk, condensed milk and cream; the cake of every celebration.
2. **Churros with cajeta or chocolate** (6 · ▲7 ▼1) — The street dessert par excellence; El Moro (Mexico City, 1935) is the most famous.
3. **Arroz con leche** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — Rice slowly cooked in milk with cinnamon and raisins.
4. **Flan napolitano** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Egg and condensed milk flan with cream cheese and caramel.
5. **Conchas** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Mexican sweet bread with its shell-patterned sugar crust.
6. **Gelatina de mosaico** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Cubes of coloured jelly set in milk jelly, a children's party favourite.
7. **Rosca de Reyes** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Ring bread with fruit paste and hidden figurines for 6 January.
8. **Jericalla** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Flan with a burnt top, born in a Guadalajara orphanage.
9. **Capirotada** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Layered fried bread with piloncillo syrup, cheese, raisins and peanuts, for Lent.
10. **Pan de muerto** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Orange and orange-blossom sweet bread with 'bones', for the Day of the Dead.
11. **Nicuatole** (1 · ▲3 ▼2) — Oaxacan corn pudding, jelly-like and coloured with cochineal.
12. **Buñuelos** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Crisp fried discs with piloncillo syrup, for Christmas.
13. **corn cake** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Moist and sweet corn kernel bread, typical of inns and Sundays.
14. **Zamorano chongos** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Dessert from Zamora (Michoacán) of curdled milk cooked in syrup with cinnamon.

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