Pan de muerto, or bread of the dead, is a typical pan dulce.
This slightly sweet bread, fragrant with anise and orange, is served with chocolate caliente or a steaming cup of café de olla (coffee boiled in a pot with lots of sugar and cinnamon).
Preparing the dough.
Adding bones to the Day of the Dead bread Pan de Muerto. 
Pink sugar-sprinkled pan de muerto for sale in the mercado. 
The symbolism in the Dead Bread.
Different 'panes de muerto' some with huesos (bones) and others being esqueletos gordos (chubby skeletons).
The Day of the Dead begins on November 1, when the souls of children come back to visit the living, and ends on November 2, when the rest of one's departed family shows up.
Marigolds (originally 'Virgin Mary's Gold') is a special flower used to commemorate the Day of the Dead in Mexico.
Papel picada (cut-paper) featuring grinning skeletons that I bought the first time I encountered the event.
A lo largo de la historia de México ha habido calaveras / Throughout Mexico's history there have been representations of skulls.
"Todos somos calaveras," José Gudalupe Posada. This translates as 'we are all skeletons', and from what I've observed, 'we are all happy and well-dressed as well'.
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