These Cupcakes Taste Like Your Favorite Mexican Food

Close your eyes and think of your favorite Mexican food. OK, now think of it in cupcake form. If you don’t know what that would look, or taste like, Viva Los Cupcakes is a cupcakery that can provide that visual as they’ve taken several favorites from the Mexican food world and cupcaked them.

In 2010 Karina Jimenez, owner of Viva Los Cupcakes, looked at the cupcake world around her and said she wanted to create something that would make her stand out.

“I needed to create something different,” Jimenez said. “I asked myself, ‘What do I know? What do I have experience in? I know — Mexican food!'”

Realizing the cupcake world was void of Mexican flavors and tradition, she went nuts in the kitchen and created cupcakes with the familiar flavors she grew up with, such as horchata, cajeta and even tamales.

The L.A.-based catering company has a ton of unique flavors with a little taste of Mexico. Check some of them out below, and peep their site for more award-winning cupcakes:

__________

Churro Con Cajeta

554909_614474618583744_669524407_n
The Churro Con Cajeta is a cinnamon vanilla cake filled with cajeta, which is a Mexican caramelized spread. It’s then and topped with cinnamon sugar.
__________

Horchata

1003041_614474801917059_1214703115_n
This cupcake is modeled after the popular milky, cinnamon-filled drink that’s popular in Mexican culture. It’s a cinnamon rice cake with horchata buttercream frosting, sprinkled with cinnamon.
__________

Cafe de Olla

10455579_788766251154579_5186938928981954187_n
This one is a black coffee cake with cinnamon and piloncillo (raw cane sugar pressed into a cone shape) crumb ribbons, topped with Cafe De Olla buttercream, a touch of dark chocolate and a coffee bean garnish.
__________

Tamal de Mole

11836916_1001115003253035_7914138782340327501_n
This one is the cupcakery’s specialty. It’s a sweet “tamale” corn cake with a mole topping that’s both sweet and a bit spicy. Jimenez realized tamales where essentially steamed cakes and firgured she could bake a cupcake version.
__________

Tres Leches

tresleches
The cupcake is inspired by the popular Mexican sponge cake that is dipped in three different types of milk. It’s a vanilla cake, moistened with a three milk sauce, topped with whipped cream and a cherry.
__________

Chocolate Tres Leches (Seasonal)

1496657_915498568481346_8983333905619700929_n
This one is like their tres leches cupcake, but in chocolate form.
__________

Arroz con Leche (Seasonal)

11013569_963184320379437_2490388486949464357_n
This cupcake is a specialty cupcake that was around for their cupcake of the month in May. It is inspired by the Mexican rice pudding dessert.
__________

Conchitas and Pastel de Galletas Maria

11427238_979962918701577_5028133909756997125_n
The ones with pink frosting are inspired by Mexican sweet bread, while the colorful cakes in the middle are inspired by cakes made with the popular Maria cookies as the base.
__________

Margarita

11692687_987541124610423_3962492106123230445_n
Based on the drink, this cupcake is a lime cake with tequila, and a tequila Margarita frosting. It has a “salted” rim, which is really sugar, and is topped with a lime, just like a Margarita.
__________

Jamaica

11737943_990260161005186_6115160481735782406_n
Based on the hibiscus drink called Jamaica, this one is made with a sweet hibiscus flower cake, hibiscus vanilla buttercream, and is garnished with a dried hibiscus flower.
__________

Champurrado

11204898_997236566974212_3487287620906546146_n

Based of the chocolatey drink, this cupcake is made with a light corn-chocolate cake, Abuelita brand chocolate, crumb ribbons, cinnamon, and is then topped with Abuelita buttercream frosting.