Your Family’s Favorite Cafecito Sweet

December 2023

Pastelitos de Guayaba or guava

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Pastelitos de Guayaba, Everyone’s Favorite Cuban Pastry

Pastelitos de guayaba or guava pastries are an everyday dessert or snack with a strong cafecito for Cubans and lots of other Latino pastry fans. (For Puerto Ricans and Panamanians too, though they go by different names.) And in Emily González’s Cuban-Mexican family, the sweet is served instead of pie every year for Thanksgiving. That’s how much they love this...

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