Venezuelan Dessert Recipes
Quesillo at every birthday, golfeados from the bakery, dulce de lechosa at Christmas and a marquesa de chocolate in the fridge: Venezuela has a sweet tooth.
+11Venezuelan desserts lean on papelón, coconut and condensed milk. Quesillo, the country’s flan, is on every birthday table; golfeados, sticky cheese-and-papelón rolls, come from the bakeries of Petare; bienmesabe and majarete use coconut; and December brings dulce de lechosa and torta negra. Every recipe below is written for a home kitchen.
Quesillo
Venezuela’s flan, made with whole eggs and condensed milk so it sets with tiny holes like a cheese, under a dark caramel.
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A Guide to Venezuelan Desserts
The sweet side of Venezuela starts with papelón, the unrefined cane sugar that flavors golfeados, catalinas and dulce de lechosa. Condensed milk gives the country quesillo, papitas de leche and marquesa de chocolate; coconut gives bienmesabe and majarete. Christmas brings torta negra and dulce de lechosa, and every bakery counter sells polvorosas and arequipe by the jar.
Start with the roundup of 20 Venezuelan desserts, then browse Latin desserts by country, Venezuelan drinks and the full Venezuelan food hub.
Golfeados sit alongside the region's other baked sweets in our guide to Latin American and Spanish cakes and pastries.
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