The best Mexican desserts
The top 3 according to 53 votes from people: Tres leches cake · Churros with cajeta or chocolate · Arroz con leche. (Updated Jun 10, 2026.)
Mexico's most representative desserts, from traditional bakery bread to party desserts, according to RPP, OkDiario and guides to Mexican baking.
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Top 10
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1
Tres leches cake
Sponge soaked in evaporated milk, condensed milk and cream; the cake of every celebration.
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Churros with cajeta or chocolate
The street dessert par excellence; El Moro (Mexico City, 1935) is the most famous.
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Arroz con leche
Rice slowly cooked in milk with cinnamon and raisins.
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4
Flan napolitano
Egg and condensed milk flan with cream cheese and caramel.
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5
Conchas
Mexican sweet bread with its shell-patterned sugar crust.
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6
Gelatina de mosaico
Cubes of coloured jelly set in milk jelly, a children's party favourite.
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Rosca de Reyes
Ring bread with fruit paste and hidden figurines for 6 January.
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Jericalla
Flan with a burnt top, born in a Guadalajara orphanage.
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9
Capirotada
Layered fried bread with piloncillo syrup, cheese, raisins and peanuts, for Lent.
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Pan de muerto
Orange and orange-blossom sweet bread with 'bones', for the Day of the Dead.
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Nicuatole
Oaxacan corn pudding, jelly-like and coloured with cochineal.
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12
Buñuelos
Crisp fried discs with piloncillo syrup, for Christmas.
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13
corn cake
Moist and sweet corn kernel bread, typical of inns and Sundays.
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14
Zamorano chongos
Dessert from Zamora (Michoacán) of curdled milk cooked in syrup with cinnamon.
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Comments (3)
El pastel de tres leches en todos los cumpleaños de mi infancia 🎂
Faltan los chongos zamoranos y el pastel de elote.
La capirotada de Cuaresma, mi abuela la hacía con queso y cacahuates.