Embark on a culinary journey to discover the delightful Pastelillos de Guayaba, also known as Guava and Cream Cheese Pastries. These delectable treats, originating from Puerto Rico, are a harmonious blend of flaky pastry and a luscious filling made from guava paste and cream cheese. As you delve into this article, you'll find a collection of carefully curated recipes that guide you through the process of creating these pastries from scratch. Whether you're a seasoned baker or just starting out, we've got you covered with step-by-step instructions, helpful tips, and a comprehensive ingredient list. So, gather your apron and prepare to indulge in the sweet and tangy goodness of Pastelillos de Guayaba, a true testament to Puerto Rican culinary heritage.
**Recipes included:**
* Classic Pastelillos de Guayaba: Experience the traditional recipe that has been passed down through generations, featuring a flaky pastry encasing a sweet guava and cream cheese filling.
* Vegan Pastelillos de Guayaba: Delight in a plant-based variation of this classic treat, crafted with a vegan pastry dough and a luscious guava and tofu filling.
* Gluten-Free Pastelillos de Guayaba: Savor the goodness of Pastelillos de Guayaba without compromising on taste, using a gluten-free pastry dough and a creamy guava and almond filling.
* Baked Pastelillos de Guayaba: Enjoy a healthier version of these pastries, baked to perfection in the oven, resulting in a crispy crust and a gooey filling.
* Air Fryer Pastelillos de Guayaba: Discover the convenience of making Pastelillos de Guayaba in an air fryer, achieving a crispy exterior and a soft, flavorful interior in a matter of minutes.
PASTELITOS DE GUAYABA Y QUESO (GUAVA AND CHEESE PASTRY)
Flaky, sweet, and flavorful, these Cuban guava and cheese pastries are the perfect morning snack to perk up your morning with a side of coffee.
Provided by Neyssa
Categories Dessert
Time 25m
Number Of Ingredients 4
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Allow puff pastry to thaw for 15-20 minutes.
- Unroll puff pastry, remove paper, and layer both over each other.
- Cut pastry into 3 by following the indented lines. Rotate the puff pastry and cut 3 additional lines to create 9 squares.
- Set the top layer of the puff pastry to the side.
- Add 1-2 slices of guava to each pastry (depending on your taste for guava), top with 1-2 chunks of cream cheese.
- Before returning the puffs to cover the guava and cream cheese, with the point of a knife, go ahead and add 2-3 slits to each square.
- Top the pastries with remaining squares.
- Brush the tops of the pastries with the whisked eggs.
- Bake for 15 minutes or until pastry tops are golden and the edges are the tiniest hint of brown.
- Serve warm.
PASTELITOS DE GUAYABA (GUAVA PASTRIES)
These delicious pastries filled with guava paste, known as pastelitos de guayaba, are a popular Latin dessert that you'll find in many Latin bakeries (panaderias) around the world.
Provided by Erica Dinho
Categories Dessert
Number Of Ingredients 4
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 400°F.
- Flour a clean, dry counter top or other flat working surface. Lay out the puff pasty on the floured surface. Flour the top of the dough. Roll out the puff pastry until it is half as thick (about ⅛-inch).
- Using a large cookie cutter, cut into 24 circles and brush the edges of each circle with the egg. A little off center of each circle, place 1 slice of guava paste. Place another circle on top to enclose the filling.
- Crimp the edges with a fork. Repeat with the remaining pastelitos, placing them on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet as you go. Bake for 20 minutes or until golden brown and puffy.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 376 kcal, Carbohydrate 34 g, Protein 6 g, Fat 24 g, SaturatedFat 6 g, TransFat 1 g, Cholesterol 41 mg, Sodium 168 mg, Fiber 1 g, Sugar 6 g, UnsaturatedFat 17 g, ServingSize 1 serving
GUAVA CHEESE TURNOVERS (GUAVA PASTELILLOS)
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
- Sprinkle the sugar on your work surface to prevent the dough from sticking. Roll out each sheet of puff pastry to an 8 by 8-inch square. Using a pizza cutter or sharp knife, cut each sheet into 4 squares.
- Make the turnovers: Set a pastry square in front of you with 1 of the corners pointing toward you. Place 1 piece of cream cheese diagonally over the center of the bottom of the square. Top with a piece of guava paste. Brush the edges of the square with beaten egg. Fold the upper half of the square over the filling to make a neat triangle. Crimp the edges with a fork. Repeat with the remaining turnovers, placing them on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet as you go.
- Bake for 20 minutes or until golden brown and puffy.
- While the turnovers are baking, mix the confectioners' sugar with the milk and vanilla, stirring to dissolve any lumps. Set aside.
- Cool the turnovers on a rack for 10 to 15 minutes, then drizzle the glaze over them. Serve warm or at room temperature.
PASTELILLOS DE GUAYABA (GUAVA CHEESE PASTRIES)
Panaderías in Puerto Rico are magical. Their brightly lit glass cases are lined with fresh-baked bread and rich pastries, begging you to order too many. As a child, I clamored for pastelillos (also called pastelitos) de guayaba. The pastries typically have a flaky crust and are filled with a generous smear of concentrated guava paste - an embodiment of tropical Caribbean flavor - and often with cheese, served glazed or dusted with powdered sugar. In East Harlem, or El Barrio, New York's historic Puerto Rican enclave where I lived for some time, I discovered Valencia Bakery on East 103rd Street, which made a bite-size version with a generous amount of confectioners' sugar, creating a portal between the island and my new home. My recipe is inspired by theirs. These are excellent with coffee, and will keep for several days, benefiting from a reheat in the oven.
Provided by Von Diaz
Categories snack, finger foods, pastries, dessert, side dish
Time 1h30m
Yield 16 servings
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Set out puff pastry to thaw for 40 minutes at room temperature.
- Once pastry is thawed, line a 12-by-17-inch baking sheet with 2 pieces of parchment paper. (The double layer helps to protect your pan when you're cutting the puff pastry.) Heat oven to 400 degrees.
- Prepare your egg wash by whisking egg and milk together. Keep it handy.
- Lay one layer of puff pastry on top of parchment paper on the baking sheet. Make a 4-by-4 grid of guava stacked with cheese, spaced evenly, leaving about 1 inch of space in between. Top with the second puff pastry sheet.
- Using a pizza cutter, slice the puff pastry into 16 equal pieces, touching the top lightly to determine where to slice. It's OK if you don't do a perfect job; these are especially good when the guava spills out and caramelizes along the edges. (And don't worry too much about getting the cut exact, or pieces being odd sizes. It gives them character.)
- Working quickly, use a fork to crimp all four edges twice on each side, then arrange them evenly on the baking sheet, leaving space between each. Brush the tops and edges lightly with the prepared egg wash and place baking sheet in the center of the oven.
- Bake for 25 minutes or until pastelillos are beautifully golden brown, flaky and puffy.
- Out of the oven, let pastelillos rest for at least 10 minutes before eating. (Guava is molten hot and will burn your mouth, badly.)
- Once they've cooled, sprinkle with confectioners' sugar to taste. They can be eaten warm or at room temperature, and will keep for several days in an airtight container. Heat leftovers in the oven for 5 minutes at 350 degrees to bring back their crispness.
GUAVA & CHEESE PASTRIES, PASTELITOS DE GUAYABA Y QUESO
These little pastries are truly addicting. They are so delicious one cannot stop eating them. They are always served in large quantities. No self respecting Latino party be it baby shower, birthday party, bridal shower, wedding, or any other. You can be sure these little pastries 50 to 100 piled high on a platter will on the...
Provided by Juliann Esquivel
Categories Other Desserts
Time 45m
Number Of Ingredients 5
Steps:
- 1. Set out your puff pastry, and cream cheese about half hour before preparing. After cream cheese has set out for a while. Put cream cheese in a bowl and beat with hand mixer until creamy add the 1/4 cup sugar and continue to mix until all the sugar is well incorporated. Set aside.
- 2. Now preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper set aside. Now take one sheet of the puff pastry. Put some flour on your flat surface and with a rolling pin roll the pastry a little each way to make a large rectangle. With a sharp knife cut the pastry in three equal strips and then cut across three times. Making nine equal squares.
- 3. Now open you goya guava paste package it will be a large block of paste. Unwrap the cellophane and with a sharp knife cut small slices. They will be about 2 1/2 inches long and 1/4 inch in thicknes. Cut 18 slices.
- 4. Now take one square of the puff pastry; spread 1 teaspoonsful of cream cheese in the middle; lay a slice of guava paste across the cheese and fold over one edge. With a the times of a fork crimp the edge all around. Sprinkle with white sugar; lay on the parchment lined cookie sheet do all your dough squares like this. I put eight on each sheet. Put into the oven and bake for 15/18 minutes. Check them at 15 minutes; if they are golden pull them out. Your guava paste will kind of seep out; no problem the ones sold at the bakeries are the same way. I also make little squares from the puff pastry and add 1 teaspoonful of cream cheese. I roll the square instead of folding them over. Sprinkle with sugar and put into the oven for 15/18 minutes. Bake until golden. Enjoy
PASTELES DE GUAYABA: GUAVA PASTRIES
Provided by Food Network
Categories dessert
Time 1h35m
Yield 8 to 16 servings
Number Of Ingredients 5
Steps:
- Blend the cream cheese, butter and flour until well mixed. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Roll out the dough into a 1/4-inch thick square. Cut the rolled dough into 16 to 20 squares.
- A little off center of each square, place 1 tablespoon guava paste. Fold the dough over the guava paste, forming a triangle. Press the edges shut. Place the pasteles onto a cookie sheet and sprinkle them with a thin layer of sugar.
- Bake until the pasteles are evenly browned, about 25 minutes.
PASTELITOS (GUAVA AND CREAM CHEESE PASTRIES)
In Havana - and in Cuban neighborhoods across the U.S. - pastry shops make many types of cakes and cookies, but the best-sellers are always the pastels and pastelitos, flaky pastries filled with meat, cheese, coconut custard or guava jam. According to "Paladares: Recipes from the Private Restaurants, Home Kitchens, and Streets of Cuba" by Anya von Bremzen (Abrams, 2017), the shape of the pastel correlates with the filling: Triangular pastels are filled with guava paste and cheese, while rectangular ones are filled with just guava. Versailles, a Cuban restaurant in Miami, follows this rule, but at home, just make them rectangular, and add a swipe of cream cheese if desired. You can find guava paste in bricks at Latin American grocers, or swap in about 1/2 cup jam or preserves for a nontraditional take.
Provided by Daniela Galarza
Categories snack, finger foods, pastries, dessert
Time 1h
Yield 8 pastelitos
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- Heat the oven to 375 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
- Prepare an egg wash: In a small bowl, beat the egg with a pinch of salt and set aside.
- On a lightly floured surface, roll one sheet of puff pastry into an 8-by-12-inch rectangle roughly the size of a standard sheet of paper. (Keep the other puff pastry sheet in the refrigerator.) Dust off any excess flour and lay the rolled pastry sheet on the parchment-lined baking sheet. Dip a pastry brush into the egg wash, and paint a line in lengthwise along the center of the pastry sheet, followed by three crosswise lines, evenly spaced, forming a grid of 8 rectangles, each approximately 3 inches wide and 4 inches long. Brush edges with egg wash. Lay a slice of guava paste in the center of each rectangle (or dot with dollops of jam or preserves, if using). Spread some of the cream cheese, if using, on top of the guava paste (about 1 1/2 tablespoons cream cheese per pastry).
- Remove the second sheet of puff pastry from the refrigerator, and roll it out into an 8-by-11-inch rectangle, dusting with flour as needed to prevent sticking. Lay the second sheet of puff pastry on top of the first. Using the side of your palm, press around and between the mounds of filling, pressing out any excess air, and to glue the top pastry to the bottom, creating 8 even, rectangular pockets. Paint the top sheet of puff pastry with egg wash. Sprinkle the surface with sugar.
- Using a knife or bench scraper, cut out and separate the 8 pastelitos following the original grid in between the indentations in the dough. Trim the perimeter to neaten the rectangles. The dough should still be cool to the touch; if it is warm, return the pastelitos to the refrigerator on the baking sheet for 10 minutes to firm up before baking.
- Bake pastelitos until puffed and golden brown, about 15 minutes. Serve warm or at room temperature.
PASTELILLOS DE GUAYABA (GUAVA PASTRIES)
Make and share this Pastelillos De Guayaba (Guava Pastries) recipe from Food.com.
Provided by Michelle Figueroa
Categories Dessert
Time 40m
Yield 10 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 3
Steps:
- Preheat oven at 350°F.
- Unfold pastry and cut into 1 1/2 inch squares or any size you like.
- Place the squares on ungreased baking sheet (I use a silicone baking liner over a baking sheet) this goes in the oven for 17 - 20 minutes.
- When the squares are cool, separate into two pieces then spread the filling of your choice and put it together again.
- Sprinkle powdered sugar on top.
Nutrition Facts :
Tips:
- For a crispy pastry, use a combination of butter and shortening.
- Chill the dough before rolling it out to prevent it from becoming too soft and sticky.
- Use a sharp knife to cut the dough into even pieces.
- Fill the pastries with a generous amount of guava paste.
- Bake the pastries until they are golden brown and the guava paste is bubbling.
- Allow the pastries to cool slightly before serving.
Conclusion:
Pastelillos de Guayaba, or guava cheese pastries, are a delicious and easy-to-make treat. With their flaky pastry and sweet, gooey guava filling, they are sure to be a hit with everyone who tries them. Whether you are making them for a special occasion or just for a snack, these pastries are sure to please. So next time you are looking for a sweet and satisfying treat, give Pastelillos de Guayaba a try.
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