Pastelillos de Guayaba (Guava Pastries)
Pastelillos de Guayaba are Puerto Rican pastries made with guava paste, cream cheese, and puff pastry. They are super easy to make and only take about 30 minutes. Perfect for serving alongside a cup of cafe con leche!
If you enjoy classic Puerto Rican recipes like Quesitos and these guava cheese empanadas, you will love Pastelillos de Guayaba.
They are the perfect combination of flaky puff pastry dough, fruity guava paste, melted cream cheese, and that signature powdered sugar topping.
Ingredients
See recipe card for quantities.
Instructions
Tip: Poke your puff pastry with a fork to help it achieve that perfectly light and fluffy texture.
Storage for Leftovers
Like most pastries, pastelillos de guayaba are best enjoyed fresh.
They should keep when kept refridgerated in an air tight container for up to 3 days.
They can also be frozen for up to 1 month. Pop them in the freezer just after baking and can be thawed and microwaved or toasted to reheat.
Buen provecho,
Pastelillos de Guayaba (Guava Pastries)
- Prep Time: 10
- Cook Time: 15
- Total Time: 25
- Yield: 9 pastries
- Category: dessert, breakfast, snack
- Method: Baked
- Cuisine: Puerto Rican, Caribbean
- Diet: Vegetarian
Description
Pastelillos de Guayaba are Puerto Rican pastries made with guava paste, cream cheese, and puff pastry. They are super easy to make and only take about 30 minutes. Perfect for serving alongside a cup of cafe con leche!
Ingredients
- 8oz (1 block) cream cheese, softened to room temperature
- 2 sheets puff pastry, thawed for 15 minutes
- 1 egg, for the egg wash
- 1 tsp granulated sugar
- 1 tbsp water
- 1 block guava paste (can also be homemade guava paste)
- 2 tbsp confectioners sugar to garnish (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prep your egg wash by beating your egg in a small bowl with a tablespoon of water plus the granulated sugar. Set aside.
- Prep the puff pastry. Lay out both sheets of puff pastry, roll out lightly and poke gently with a fork all around. Using a pastry or pizza cutter, cut each sheet into 9 (3×3) equal sized rectangles.
- Prep the filling & assemble. Cut the cream cheese block and guava paste block into 9 slices. Lay one slice of each in the center of half of the puff pastry rectangles.
- Egg wash & bake. Top the guava and cheese with the leftover puff pastry rectangles and brush with egg wash. Bake on a parchment lined baking sheet for 15-20 minutes, or until they are golden brown and cooked through. Sprinkle with confectioners sugar and enjoy!
Loved these, thank you for posting! .Brought me right back to vacationing in Puerto Rico and Miami. These were very easy to make and the combination of cream cheese and guava paste oozing out with the crispy edges of the puff pastry was oh so fab! Disappointed though with the PF brand due to the ingredients which causes terrible mouth feel and an off-putting odor after they’ve cooled..Wish they made an all natural product and used butter instead of oil.
So so good! I love the crunch it came with. Delicious!