Costa Rican desserts?

Question

I have to do a culture project on Costa Rica and I need to bring in a food. I want to bring a dessert that will be easy enough to bring in (i don't want to have to serve it warm or really cold or anything if I can help it)...a couple desserts people told me about are queque seco and torta chilena but I want something thats really authentic and commonly eaten by the Costa Rican people

Answer 1

Try this website:  http://www.globalgourmet.com/destination...

Good luck!

Answer 2

rice pudin is one of the most eaten here and not difficult to make.

Answer 3

Common desserts are (beside queque seco ), Miel de Chiverre (Sweet White Spaghetti Squash), Tres Leches, Arroz con leche (rice pudding), and Suspiros (Meringues).

Arroz con leche (rice pudding dessert

Ingredients:

1 cup sweetened condensed milk

1 cup evaporated milk

6 cup milk

1 cup uncooked long grain rice

1/2 cup water

½ teaspoon vanilla extract

2 sticks cinnamon, cracked

1/2 cup raisins

1 teaspoon fresh nutmeg

Answer 4

There are many Costa Rican desserts in the cuisine of Costa Rica. They are made in complete delicacy and are extremely joyful to prepare, serve and eat. Some of the most popular Costa Rican desserts are: cono capuchino - an ice-cream cone topped with chocolate, dulce de leche - syrup of boiled milk and sugar. Also thicker, fudge like cajeta - delicious! Flan - cold caramel custard, mazamorra - corn starch pudding, melcocha - candy made from raw sugar, milanes - chocolate candies, pan de maiz - corn sweet bread, queque seco - pound cake, and the famous torta chilena - multilayered cake filled with dulce de leche. All these desserts are exceptionally mouth watering and extremely lip-l*****g. They are easy to make and a delight to serve and eat.

Recipes:

Arroz con Leche (literaly rice whit milk)

rice Pudding

Ingredients

2 cups (470 ml) rice

4 cups (950 ml) milk

4 cups (950 ml) Sugar

1 Tablespoon (15 ml) vanilla

½ teaspoon (2.5 ml) ground cinnamon

½ teaspoon (2.5 ml) ground cloves or 6 whole cloves

½ teaspoon (2.5 ml) grated fresh nutmeg

4 oz (110 gr) butter

1 cup (235 ml) raisins

Directions

Cook rice uncovered in 8 cups of water for 45 minutes until rice is quite soft. Stir in other ingredients and simmer for 1/2 hour.

Serve warm, or refrigerate at least four hours to serve cold.

Tres Leches (literaly three milks)

Milk cake

Ingredients

baked cake*

Filling

2 cups milk

1 can of condensed milk

1 can of evaporated milk

1 quart of half'n'half

vanilla

1 cup of Sugar

Directions

For the * :Mix Sugar and butter cream until fluffy, add 4 eggs and vanilla blend all together with the2 cups of flour with baking powder. Pour into a greased rectangularpyrex and bake for 30 minutos.

Once the cake is ready and cold, add the filling (milk, condensed milk, evaporated milk) combine the 3 milks and soak the cake with it.

If you want, you can add whipped cream (Sugar and half & half) and spread on top of the cake.

keep it on the refrigerator for about 1 hour.

You can use fresh fruits on top of the cake (strawberrys or cherries).