Puerto rican pastries

These Puerto Rican Mantecaditos are soft, buttery shortbread cookies, topped with a pop of guava and are the cookies everyone will love. They're easy to make and utterly delicious.

Pastelillos (also known as pastelitos) 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!

Today we're making a popular Puerto Rican dessert called Quesitos that are made with puff pastry and cream cheese. Quesitos come together in under 30 minutes and are perfect served hot with a cup of café con leche or tea as a treat for breakfast or dessert.

Quesitos are Puerto Rican pastries filled with sweet cream cheese filling inside puff pastry, finished with a simple glaze.

A traditional Puerto Rican meat turnover, similar to an empanada but it's not an empanada. It's a pastelillo.

These flaky, sweet, cheesy—amazing—quesitos are my favorite treat when we go home to Puerto Rico. I crave them the minute our plane lands.

Tender, buttery, crisp Puerto Rican cookies called Mantecaditos (also Polvorones) are perfect for Christmas with sprinkles or guava paste!

This amazing cake has many names: flancocho, chocoflan or torta imposible, which literally means “impossible cake”. This cake is the best of two of my favorites desserts, chocolate cake and flan.

Tembleque ("wobbly" in spanish) is a classic Puerto Rican coconut pudding made with coconut milk, cornstarch, cinnamon and sugar. It's appropriately named for its wiggly appearance and deliciously smooth texture. For best results, chill the dessert in the fridge for at least 2 hours before serving.