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Inside Mexico: Calabaza en Tacha

Traditional dessert using pumpkin, orange and cinnamon.

Day of the Dead Recipes

Traditional foods for this holiday include champurrado (chocolate drink), tamales, sugar skulls (candy treat), agua de jamaica (hibiscus tea), and mole negro, a sauce of many spices and peppers, with chicken cooked in it.

Growing Up Bilingual: 15 Traditional Day of the Dead Recipes

Some of the recipes are Potato Pan de Muerto (potato bread), Tortillas de Cempazuchitl (marigold tortillas), Jalapeño and Cactus Tamales, Conchas or pan dulce (sweet bread), and Calabaza Tacha, pumpkin cooked then served in sweet caramel sauce, similar to flan.

FoodWine.com: Days of The Dead

Explains the use of food and includes a recipe for traditional pan de muerto, bread of the dead.

FoodWine.com: Pan de Muerto

Yeast bread made and served for Day of the Dead celebrations.

Maya's Day of the Dead Cookies

Recipe from A Year in Chocolate: Four Seasons of Unforgettable Desserts by Alice Medrich.

Sofia Craxton's Recipes

Try Pumpkin Pudding, Pan de Muerto (Bread of the Dead) and Mexican Hot Chocolate to celebrate the Mexican Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos).