Colombian Dessert Recipes

Popular Colombian dessert recipes are easy to follow, most don’t require any special ingredients and they all lead us to sweet results. Easy-to-get ingredients on a recipe may lead any reader to try and prepare snacks or entire meals and, short preparation and waiting times related to sweet treats can easily captivate anyone who likes sweet food.

Arrequipe

Ingredients

• 96 ounces of whole milk
• 1 1/2 pounds of Sugar
• 1/2 Teaspoon of Baking Soda
• 1/4 Teaspoon of Salt
• 1 Cinnamon Stick

Combine all of your ingredients in a pot and bring to a boil.Stirr often with a wooden spoon while reducing the heat down to medium low and stirr often until your mixture becomes as thick as a pudding and turns into a caramel like color (about 3 hours).

Pour it into a container and cover it well. You can keep it in the refrigerator for up to a week.

Leche Asada

Ingredients

• 1 can of condensed milk
• 1 can of evaporated milk
• 1 cup of sugar
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
• 8 beaten eggs
• 1/4 cup of water

First mix the condensed and evaporated mix with 1/2 cup of sugar, vanilla and the beaten eggs. At the same time, in a saucepan dissolve 1/2 cup of sugar in 1/4 cup of water.

Heat the sugar and water mix until its tan colored and sirupy. Once its ready, pour the caramel in a baking dish and pour the milk mixture on top. In a bigger bowl filled halfway with water, place the smaller dish and cover anything with foil. In a 400 degree oven, the crustartd should be completely cooked in about 30-45 minutes. Once its ready, let it cool down, serve and enjoy.

Manjar Blanco

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup of rice
• 10 cups of whole milk
• 2 1/2 cups of sugar
• A pinch of Salt and;
• 1/4 cup of raisins (optional ingredient)

Directions

Two days before making this dish you have to place the rice in a bowl filled with water, then rinse and drain it.

In a blender place the now soaked rice with 1 cup of milk, blend and then place in a medium pot along with the rest of your milk, sugar and salt. Bring to a boil and then reduce the heat to medium.

Just like in previous Colombian dessert recipes, in order to achieve a pudding like texture, stir often with a wooden spoon for about three hours, let the mixture cool and add raisins as a final touch.

Store the result in a glass bottle, cover with foil and refrigerate for up to a week..

Mazamorra

Ingredients

• 1 Can of drained and rinsed Hominy (Maiz Peto)
• 6 cups of water
• 5 cups of milk
• Panela or Guava paste on the side

Place the hominy In a large pot, add water and cook for 40 minutes with heat on meadium. Transfer to regular bowl, add milk and serve panela on the side. Unlike other Colombian dessert recipes, this can be served warm or cold and is considered a drink by many instead of a dissert. Either way, it is still very popular as Bandeja Paisa side and, it also works just fine on its own as a dessert.

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