Masa harina dessert recipes

Learn how to make a delicious and authentic Mexican sweet corn cake, also known as el torito. This easy recipe combines sweet corn, masa harina, sugar, and butter for a perfect balance of flavors. Serve it as a side dish or top it with ice cream for a decadent dessert.

Masa harina is a versatile ingredient with a nutty corn flavor and slightly gritty mouth-feel, delicious in both sweet and savory dishes.

Lightly crispy 4 ingredient Vegan Butter Cookies that melt in your mouth and are easy to make!

These masa harina recipes range from dinner and bread to dessert. It's the unsung hero of Mexican cuisine, responsible for tamales, tortillas, and more.

These cookies are fragrant from the cinnamon and heady with the cocoa, crisp on the outside from the cinnamon sugar they’re rolled in before baking, and soft on the inside.

Everybody loves empanadas. What’s not to love? They are small, handheld pockets of limitless possibilities. Typically empanadas are made with wheat flour, can be either baked or fried and can even lean towards the sweet or savory side. All that is good. But you can also use corn flour, or masa harina, to make enticing …

I’ve said before on the blog that one of my favorite things in the world to bake and eat are sugar cookies. While I do have my old faithful recipe that I always have to fall back on, I’…

These colorful masa cookies are chewy on the inside and perfectly sweet. They are inspired by our favorite local Mexican-fusion restaurant, Centro Minneapolis!

Chef Alan Delgado wanted to incorporate masa into as many dishes as possible at restaurant Xilonen. The masa adds lovely floral notes to these pancakes. When shopping for gluten-free flour for this brunch recipe, make sure to buy one that lists xanthan gum as one of its ingredients. These are usually indicated as cup-for-cup or one-to-one type flours. The xanthan gum helps bind everything, creating structure so that the pancakes come out light and fluffy.

Masa Chocolate Chip Cookies (excited to make these for my boyfriend!)

butter cookies made with masa harina (gf)

A spin on the classic cornbread using Masa Harina flour which makes for a light and tender texture with rich corn flavor.

Without the miracle of masa harina, tortillas, tamales, and other Mexican dishes would not exist. Learn more about the wonders of this corn dough flour. By Mama Maggie's Kitchen #mamamaggieskitchen

How to make Gorditas Recipe with Maseca is simple with two ingredients: Masa Harina, or Maseca, and hot water, blended and cooked on the griddle.

This recipe for Mexican spiced chocolate chip cookies uses Masienda's Heirloom Yellow Corn Masa Harina, 70% chocolate chips, and a blend of spices (chiles, cinnamon and allspice). The result is a chewy, corny, spiced and chocolatey cookie with champurrado-like flavor that will have you reaching for more.

Make your own Mexican Sweet Corn Cake at home with this delicious, tried and true recipe. Perfect as a side dish for any Mexican meal.

Learn to make atole, the corn-based hot beverage enjoyed by young and old in Mexico since time immemorial, with an easy basic recipe plus fruit variations.

The versatile, ancestral ingredient shines in desserts.

Preheat the oven to 425. If you’re planning to bake your cornbread in a cast iron pan, put the pat of butter in the pan and put it into the oven to heat up. If...