Go to Epicurious.com: Recipes, Menus, Cooking Articles & Food Guides, then to advanced search. Choose Mexican or Southwestern for cuisine, dessert for meal/ course, and exclude chocolate from search. :headspin

 

Soapapillas (sp?) rock! I haven't had em since i was 8 its like fried tortillas with honey and butter.

 

Yum! Also, fried ice cream is popular in a lot of Mexican restaurants. I know you probably can't actually fry ice cream, but you could replicate this with vanilla ice cream, cinnamon sugar and a crunchy topping.

 

Flan - custard with caramel sauce on top. I think that you can get an easy make box from Goya. I like mine from scratch though.

 

I was going to suggest flan too! It's super easy to make and so good.

 

Damn, me three! I was scrolling down, and was like, wtf, no one has suggested flan? I WILL!! Ah, too slow.

Anyway, JELLO makes flan packages that you make like JELLO.. SUPER easy. But I hear it's also easy to make it from scratch.

 

Tres leches cake (3 milks). I think its a pretty popular Mexican dessert. Do a search on Food Network's website.

 

FLAN FTW!

 

I don't have any food suggestions but I have a really easy, super delicious margarita recipe just in case you want to try something different.

Fill blender with ice.
Use half a can of frozen limeade concentrate.
6 oz. gold tequila
2 oz. orange curaco
Blend like crazy, it will be thick at first, but as it melts it gets better.

 

I wonder if it will work with blue curacao? It's orange flavored. hmmmm

I was going to make some with Chambord too.

 

^I'm sure blue will work fine! Mmm, I've never tried it with Chambord, but then again, my body doesn't agree with Chambord hehe!

 

This is kind of rich, so I don't know if you want to make it when you have been drinking but it is really good and easy:

Caramel Flautas
3 tablespoons sugar, divided

1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

3 tablespoons butter

6 flour tortillas (6-inch, fajita size)

3 Washington Fuji apples, peeled, cored and thinly sliced

1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice

1/2 cup Marzetti's Caramel Apple Dip

Whipped cream

Heat oven to 325°F. In a small bowl, mix 2 tablespoons sugar and the cinnamon; set aside. Melt butter in a large skillet. Brush butter on one side of each tortilla; sprinkle each buttered side with 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon-sugar mixture. Turn tortillas over and repeat buttering and sprinkling. Reserve remaining butter in skillet.

Place tortillas on an ungreased baking sheet and place in oven just to warm - about 1 minute. Remove from oven and roll the tortillas loosely to make tubes; place seam side down on baking sheet. Return tortillas to oven and bake just until lightly browned on underside and a bit crisp - 6 to 8 minutes.

Meanwhile, in remaining butter in skillet, saute apples and remaining tablespoon sugar over high heat until lightly browned and tender - about 8 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in lemon juice.

To serve, spoon warm apples into tortillas. Warm the caramel mixture in the microwave 15 seconds; stir and microwave another 15 seconds. Drizzle caramel over flautas and top with a dollop of whipped cream.

Serves 6

 

Hey Jolie what is Marzetti's Caramel Apple Dip? Is it like a caramel sauce? Can you get in Australia, or maybe something similar?

I was going to try this recipe sounds yummo

 

Flan FTW :thumbsup

 

Flan ROCKS!!

 

I think flan definitely won. And what's better than ice cream anyway. YUM!

 

Flan! Sopapillas! cinnamon ice cream!

 

The first thing I thought of after I read the title of this thread was that part in The Office when Ryan the temp dubiously draws a ~ over the "n" on the word "lemonade" on the bottle for Oscar's party

Sorry I'm not much help

 

There is a toffee caramel sauce I can get out here, and will use that.

thanks, I am definitely going to try this one out!

 

great make sure you tell me how you liked it and post pics if you can!! I would love to see!!

 

Thanks for all the ideas. Flan ended up being out because I had tickets to a hockey game for the time I would have needed to be cooking. Then, 1 of my friends decided to make apple empanadas (which were divine, btw). So, I made a Mexican cookie called Pajas (recipe can be found here: Pajas Recipe: Recipes: Food Network)