What is QueSito?

QueSito is filled with baked pastry from Puerto Rico, which is usually consumed as a dessert. It may have several different shapes, but the ingredients generally include some kind of inflated bark wrapped around the filling of soft, sweet cheese. The common shapes for QueSito pastries include a shape, tube or croissant. Sometimes the pastry is packed to completely close the filling and sometimes the filling is partially exposed. It can be somewhat compared to Empanada cheese, although empanads are usually fried and unbaked.

This sweet dessert comes in several different varieties. Traditionally, QueSito contains sweetened cream cheese, which was flavored with vanilla. Some variations of QueSito contain fruit or jam that can be layered using sweet cream cheese or mixed into it to give the cream cheese a fruit taste. The common fruit mixed with cheese is Guava and Papája.

QueSito is ready for baking rolling, filling with cream cheese and folding cream cheese into PEchiva to avoid. It then bakes in the oven until the pastry is golden brown. Bakers usually use brushed egg white to brown the outside of the baked pastry and make it crunchy. Egg whites can be manually separated by cooks or can be purchased in a shop already separated from the yolk.

In general, the cheese is used to fill the pastry with QueSito with cream cheese - soft, white cheese that is used for many diet applications. In addition to using in Quesit, it can be extended to toast, used in sandwiches or baked in a curd cake. The neufer, soft cheese that is similar to cream cheese, but lower in fat, can in many cases also be used instead of cream cheese.

QueSito can be purchased from Bakeries and Sweet Shops across Puerto Rico. Other popular desserts in this Isla nation include many fruit dishes, including flans, puddings and cakes. Fruits common to desserts in Puerto Rico include common axesTrust fare like bananas, coconuts and Guava. These fruits are baked in desserts or candied and are served next to cream desserts such as kiss or quesito.