We stopped by the world famous Playa Mar Chiquita today…read more
Much to our delight, a nice, little lady (I'll call her the dessert lady) named Wanda, stopped by selling homemade flans, tres leches cakes and coquito.
The flavors of flan were:
Baileys
Coconut
Pumpkin
vanilla cream
cream cheese
tequila rose
We bought a bottle of Coquito and the Bailey's and the coconut flans.
All three were delicious! Of the flans, I think my favorite was the coconut because it actually had coconut pieces in it. They were both really good though. If we had more people with us, I would like to have tried
more especially the tequila rose.
I'm not from Puerto Rico so for those of you who, like me, have never tried Coquito. I'll do my best to explain it.
Apparently, it's a coconut-based alcoholic beverage that originated in Puerto Rico. It is a holiday drink that is akin to eggnog with similar eggnog flavoring. Although it does not contain any eggs, the consistency is very similar to the thickness of eggnog. It too, was very good.
If you happen to be there, just wait for a while. She'll show up in the afternoon sometime. She was very nice. I hope you get a chance to try her desserts because I think you'll really like all the things she has for sale. At least I did anyway.