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Cuban pastries (known in Spanish as pasteles or pastelitos) are baked puff pastry–type pastries filled with sweet or savory fillings. [1] Traditional fillings include cream cheese quesitos, guava (pastelito de guayaba) and cheese, pineapple, and coconut. The sweet fillings are made with sweetened fruit pulps.
Cuban bread is the necessary base for a "Cuban sandwich" (sometimes called a "sandwich mixto"). [14] [15] [16] It can also be served as a simple breakfast, especially toasted and pressed with butter and served alongside (and perhaps dunked into) a hot mug of cafe con leche (strong dark-roasted Cuban coffee with scalded milk).
Quesito is one of the most popular pastries in Puerto Rico. The origin of this pastry is unclear but exact recipes are found all over Latin America and the Caribbean. Cream cheese is whipped with vanilla and sugar , guava paste or jam can be added and is a favorite in Latin America and Caribbean.
A mille-feuille (French: [mil fœj]; lit. ' thousand-sheets '), [notes 1] also known by the names Napoleon in North America, [1] [2] vanilla slice in the United Kingdom, and custard slice, is a French dessert made of puff pastry layered with pastry cream.
The empanada resembles savory pastries found in many other cultures, such as the molote, pirozhki, [51] calzone, [51] samosa, [51] [52] knish, [51] [52] kreatopitakia, [51] khuushuur, Jamaican patty and pasty. [52] In most Malay-speaking countries in Southeast Asia, the pastry is commonly called epok-epok or karipap (English: curry puff).
The type of pastry used is not defined, as long as it is golden in colour and will not crack during the cooking or cooling, [20] although modern pasties almost always use a shortcrust pastry. [41] There is a humorous belief that the pastry on a good pasty should be strong enough to withstand a drop down a mine shaft, [ 42 ] and indeed the ...
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Sfogliatella (Italian: [sfoʎʎaˈtɛlla]; Neapolitan: sfugliatella; pl.: sfogliatelle) is a shell-shaped pastry with a sweet or creamy filling, originating in the Campania region of Italy. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Sfogliatella means 'small, thin leaf/layer', as the pastry's texture resembles stacked leaves.