Vanilla and chocolate are delicious and easy enough to make, but sometimes you want to mix it up - without making any extra effort. (Because, really, who ever wants to make more effort?) Thankfully, Maizena (as well as some of the supermarket brands) makes powdered mixes with cute little cartoons on them that are cheap (3 pesos in Mexico, 85 cents in the U.S.), as easy to make as regular atole and readily available in any Mexican supermarket or online.
Maizena offers a variety of basic, as well as some special, flavors. There's vanilla and chocolate, of course, in the rare case you don't have vanilla extract or cocoa powder in your house (but if you do, make your own). For people who enjoy fruit (because I'm sure there's at least a few out there), there's strawberry, coconut and guava, all of which taste best in the near frozen "milkshake" style. The other flavors, pecan and cajeta (dulce de leche), taste great either hot or cold (or chilled and thrown into the ice cream maker)!
Can you bring me a bunch of these next time you visit? I have to try them. Putting them in the ice cream maker sounds like quite an idea! You know which flavors I'd want.
ReplyDelete(And don't forget the popcorn!)