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Home › Holidays › Dia de los Muertos

Mexican Dia de los Muertos Recipes

Looking for a fun way to involve your kids in celebrating Día de los Muertos? Try a festive craft or recipe! Learn How to Make Sugar Skulls and enjoy these traditional Mexican Día de los Muertos Recipes: Mexican Bread of the Dead Recipe (Pan de Muerto), Conchas (Mexican Pan Dulce), Chicken Mole Recipe, Green Chile Tamales, and Champurrado (Mexican Hot Chocolate and Corn Drink).

two cheese tamales topped with salsa verde on a hand-painted terracotta plate.

Cheese Tamales With Roasted Green Chiles (Vegetarian & Gluten-Free!)

hand carved barro holding cafe de olla with a cinnamon stick stir stick.

Café de Olla (Mexican Spiced Coffee)

Mexican Hot Chocolate in Mexican barro pot next to a matching mug filled with Mexican hot chocolate.

Mexican Hot Chocolate

wooden table with a hand thrown mug filled with champurrado next to a platter of pan dulce.

Champurrado (Thick Mexican Chocolate Drink)

hands holding a hand-carved wooden tray filled with wrapped tamales.

Mexican Tamales: Sweet or Savory, Always Delicious!

two wrapped chicken mole tamales and one unwrapped tamale doused in extra mole sauce on an earthenware plate.

Chicken Mole Tamales

wooden cutting board on top of a brightly embroidered flower tablecloth and topped with round and square-shaped tri-color Mexican polvorones cookies.

Colorful Mexican Polvorones (Panadería-Style Cookies)

overhead shot of homemade baked pineapple empanadas on a colorful dish towel atop a cutting board.

Baked Pineapple Empanadas (Mexican Empanadas de Piña)

chicken tinga tostadas on a green plate

Chicken Tinga Recipe (Instant Pot & Stovetop Instructions)

marigold surrounding two blood orange margaritas with marigold petals rim

Marigold Blood Orange Margarita

pecan shortbread cookies with marigolds in the background on a day of the dead altar

Double Pecan Thumbprint Cookies

overhead shot of an oval white serving plate with a loaf of Mexican chocolate zucchini bread with half of it cut into slices and a mug of coffee to the side.

Mexican Chocolate Zucchini Bread

overhead shot of lemon mini skull cakes on a white table, with each decorated slightly differently with powdered sugar, edible writing gel, and sprinkles.

Mini Lemon Sugar Skull Cakes

black bean and rice enchiladas

Vegetarian Rice and Black Bean Enchiladas

atole de vainilla made with masa harina in a brown earthenware mug.

Mexican Atole de Vainilla with Masa Harina

pumpkin cookies on a cooling rack.

Spiced Pumpkin Cookies With Raisins and Nuts

pumpkin empanadas stacked up on a silver serving platter.

Easy Baked Pumpkin Empanadas

Overhead on the skull silicon candy molds

Dia de los Muertos Candy Skulls

sugar skulls on a platter

How to Make Sugar Skulls for Day of the Dead

Mexican Chocolate Skull Cakes

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