Bolivian Desserts Food Home Page • Recipes • Add Recipes • Ingredients • Dining Etiquette BoliviaBella has had so many requests for Bolivian desserts! Apparently our readers really have a sweet tooth - which is great! So do we and we're happy to share! You'll notice many desserts in Bolivia are made with fruit, especially in central, northern and Eastern Bolivia where the climate is more tropical and fruit is abundant. Check out my section on Bolivian fruit for pictures and additional information on some of the most common fruits in Bolivia, as well as their flavors and uses. 
Chocolate and coconut are also two very common ingredients in Bolivia, especially in the Easter region where there are large coconut palm and cacao tree plantations. In recipes that use coconut, always preserve the coconut milk when you crack open a coconut - you'll (almost) always need it for your recipe. In Bolivian recipes that use chocolate, try to get the most natural, organic, pure form you can. That's because in Bolivia our chocolate comes directly from the cacao fruit, which you can purchase commonly in markets and supermarkets. The chocolate is made from the large seeds you find inside it, after cleaning off the gooey pulp that surrounds them. (Many people use the pulp to make juice.) The seeds are dried out or toasted and then pulverized - this is what chocolates around the world are made from. I got this message from a young site visitor not long ago: "Dear Bella. Will you please tell my mom chocolate is made from a fruit so she'll let me eat more of it?" So sweet! (But sorry. The cacao pulp blended into a juice is a fruit. The dried seeds made into a powder which is then made into chocolate - not a fruit). You'll also see many recipes use different types of dairy products like evaporated milk, condensed milk, heavy cream, and "dulce de leche" or "manjar de leche". (These last two are condensed milk that is caramelized by cooking it until it turns brown and sticky. It's similar to caramel, but still runny - not yet a solid - it's more like the caramel you pour over ice cream sundaes, not like chewy caramel candies or taffy. In fact, if you cannot find dulce de leche in your local store, you can replace it with caramel ice cream topping, as long as it is thick.) Below you'll find a list of Bolivian dessert recipes. Keep in mind that if you cannot find the Bolivian fruit necessary for them, in many of these recipes you can replace them with fruit that is similar in flavor or texture (pears for apples, tangerines for oranges, etc.) Check out our page on Bolivian fruit for pictures and additional information on some of the most common fruits in Bolivia, as well as their flavors and uses. Try These Bolivian DessertsBudin de Coco (Coconut Pudding) We add to this Bolivian recipe section continually, so bookmark or add this page to your RSS feed and check back for more recipes soon!
Where to Find Tons of Great South American Ingredients:LaTienda.com is a great online store where you can find MANY of the ingredients you'll need for Bolivian recipes. They specialize in food from Spain and have warehouses in the US and in Europe. But now they're also importing South American foods - so check out their website and click on NEW WORLD FLAVORS to see all the cool new South American stuff they have online. If they add something new, they let us know about it! Return from Bolivian Desserts to Home Page
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