guava pastry
Fruit-filled Cuban sweet
A guava pastry is a flaky pastry filled with sweet guava paste, popular in Cuban and Latin American bakeries.
The filling is made from the tropical fruit's pulp cooked down with sugar.
The most common form is the pastelito de guayaba—a puff pastry turnover often paired with cream cheese: I grabbed a guava pastry and a cafecito.
- tropicalOf hot, humid regions
- flakyCrumbly or unreliable
- sweetTasting of sugar
- fillingMaterial placed within
- fruitEdible plant ovary
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