Dessert40

Desserts here lean on coconut, condensed milk, corn, cassava and tropical fruit, and many are tied to holidays rather than everyday cooking.
Cassava pone, coconut tarts, conkies and bread pudding are the Belizean core, with black fruit cake and rum cake reserved for Christmas. Flan, tres leches and polvoron come from the Mestizo side.
From further out: Jamaican gizzada and toto, Puerto Rican arroz con dulce, and Cuban pastelitos.

tart with meringue on plates near lemons on table
Belizean Lemon Pie BelizeDessert

Belizean Lemon Pie

Belizean Lemon Pie Belizean lemon pie is a condensed-milk citrus filling in a blind-baked crust under a tall meringue. It is tart the way a key lime pie is tart, sweeter from the condensed milk, and it sets without gelatin because the acid does the work. There is no cooking of the filling at all. Belizean lemon pie, Belizean lemon meringue pie and Belizean lime pie all name the same dessert, and the recipe below is written for either fruit. Ingredients 1 can (14 oz / 397 g) condensed milk,…
Joe Post
August 10, 2026
Rice Pudding Recipe - Belize News Post
Creamy Cardamom Rice Pudding BelizeDessert

Creamy Cardamom Rice Pudding

This is a stovetop rice pudding built on cardamom pods and a cinnamon stick, thickened with condensed and evaporated milk. It is not a regional recipe. It is one cook's version, picked up across a lot of kitchens, and the cardamom is the part that makes it worth the pot. Rice Pudding Recipe Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups (300 g) rice 4 cups (960 ml) water 4 cardamom pods, squashed but whole 1 cinnamon stick 1/2 cup (100 g) sugar 1 can (14 oz / 397 g) condensed milk 1 can…
Joe Post
August 11, 2026