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Carlota

Delicious and simple Mexican bread pudding

Published:   2023-07-08 22:34
Updated:   2024-09-03 11:40
Words: 313
Tags:   #recipes 

A carlota or carlota de limón is a type of "bread pudding" (similar to a Charlotte Cake). It's a common dessert in Mexico, containing, like so many Mexican dishes, limes.

It takes about 10 - 20 minutes to make, a couple of hours to chill.

Ingredients

The ingredients for making Carlota spead out atop a table with a red and white checkered table cloth.
Ingredients for making Carlota

Directions

Squeeze limes into blender. Add condensed milk, juice from canned peaches, and 1 whole peach to blender. Blend.

Get a large bowl with a flat bottom. Lightly coat bottom with pudding from blender.

The bowl coated with pudding mix.

Cover coating with vanilla wafers. Cover vanilla wafers with more pudding. Repeat until all the pudding is used up.

The bowl coated with wafers and pudding mix.

Slice and place peaches on top.

Chill 2 - 3 hours in fridge. Serve cold.

The finished product. A yummy, chilled bowl of fresh carlota topped with canned peaches.
The finished product

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