What is Cuban pastry?
Cuban pastry is a small, filled pastry traditionally made of leaf pastry and often described as similar to American turnover. Eat warm if possible, and with coffee, the Cuban community is a common breakfast or refreshment. The fillings can be sweet or salty, and some such as Guava paste or jelly are traditional popular. Cuban pastries can be made at home, but because it is time -consuming to prepare, most people buy them in bakeries. Pasteles is a Spanish word for cakes and a small form, pastelitos, or "small cakes", is a Cuban term for these pastries.
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Cuban pastries are always served in individual parts. Sometimes they are assembled and baked in this way and sometimes larger pieces are filled and baked, then cut into the desired shape and size for administration. They can be round, rectangular, square or triangular and sometimes has a traditional relationship to the fillings.
As well as turnovers, Cuban pastries can have any filling, but several contents are definitely traditional. Guava jelly or paste made of tropical fruit Guava is a classic filling for sweet Cuban pastries. Other traditional sweet fillings are the jelly Guava paired with cream cheese, sweetened coconut and sweetened cream cheese. Less traditional options include Apple, Cherry or any way that could be used to fill the cake. BeastIvo is brushed with sugar syrup before baking or during baking, which tends to harmonize the bark a little and helps it better brown.
spicy fillings can be ham, cheese or various spicy meat mixtures. Picadillo, a traditional Cuban meat made of minced beef, Creole onion and tomato sauces, pimento olives and raisins, is the most common meat. Spicy pastries are also traditionally brushed with sugar syrup, which gives them a slight combination of sweet and salty taste. The traditional shape for pastry meat is round.