Tembleque is a coconut dessert pudding from Puerto Rico[1] similar to blancmange and related to Latin American manjar blancos and Filipino maja blanca.

[2] Tembleque is made by cooking coconut cream, coconut milk, heavy cream (optional), salt, cornstarch, sugar, and garnished with ground cinnamon.

It is a holiday dish, served on New Year's Day throughout the island of Puerto Rico.

According to the Encyclopedia of Puerto Rico, published by the Foundation for the Humanities, each time a Puerto Rican migrant to the United States comes closer and closer to forgetting their roots, foods like tembleque bring them back and remind them of who they are, of their island, and of their grandmother.

The dessert, due to its Jell-O-like gel texture, trembles, shivers, and shakes[9] if it has been prepared correctly.