When I Can Get Guava and Cheese Pastry
Guava and Cream Cheese Pastry
This riff on a jalousie, a type of sweet whose top pastry lets you peek at the sweet filling within, features golden puff pastry filled with stripes of sweetened cream cheese and lush guava paste. Test kitchen director Ruth Cousineau conceived of this pastry as a dessert, but it would also make a decadent breakfast treat.
Ingredients
Makes 4 to 6 servings
1 large egg
1/2 tablespoon water
6 ounces cream cheese, softened
1 tablespoon sugar
1/4 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
5 ounces guava preserves or paste (about 2/3 cup)
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
1 sheet frozen puff pastry (from a 17 1/4-ounce package), thawed
Step 1
Preheat oven to 425°F with rack in middle.
Step 2
Beat egg with a fork, then put 1 1/2 tablespoons egg in a small bowl with water (1/2 tablespoon) and lightly beat to make egg wash.
Step 3
Put remaining beaten egg in a food processor with cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla and purée until smooth. Transfer to a small bowl.
Step 4
Purée guava preserves with lemon juice in cleaned food processor until smooth.
Step 5
Put a baking sheet in oven to preheat 5 minutes while you prepare pastry.
Step 6
Roll out pastry on a floured work surface with a floured rolling pin into an 11- by 9 1/2-inch rectangle. Cut rectangle in half crosswise.
Step 7
Transfer 1 piece of pastry to a sheet of foil. Spread cream cheese mixture in a 3 1/2-inch-wide strip down middle of pastry, leaving 1-inch borders on all sides. Dollop 2 rows of preserves lengthwise on top of cheese mixture, about 1 inch apart.
Step 8
Fold remaining piece of pastry in half lengthwise and put folded edge nearest you. Leaving a 1-inch border on sides and top of pastry, cut 1 1/2-inch-long slits every 1/2 inch through folded edge to top border.
Step 9
Brush some of egg wash around filling. Unfold cut pastry and lay over filling. Lightly press edges to seal and brush top of dough with some egg wash. Bake on foil on hot baking sheet until puffed and golden-brown, 25 to 30 minutes. Transfer pastry to a rack to cool completely.
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Reviews (6)
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Turned out reasonably well, although I have a couple notes/caveats: Trader Joe's puff pastry sheets are already the correct size, so no rolling out is required. As a result, I didn't need to use flour on the pastry sheet, so when it came time to cut the slits in the top half, it stuck together (oops). Thankfully, I had another pastry sheet, but in future, I wouldn't bother folding the top half sheet in half to cut the slits -- just cut them, and be extra careful to not pull the pastry out of shape or tear it when laying it on top of the filling. Also, I don't think I'd add the lemon juice to the guava paste in the future -- it came out a little too tangy for my tastes.
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I learned this recipe through a Cuban friend...but l use the cream cheese without diluting it and l use guava paste... The cream cheese melts nicely without oozing all over the place.
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I made this as directed and it came out very nice. Bake time for me was 20 minutes so be careful! Frozen puff pastry is fun and easy, I need to exploit it more. I have to make it again because I still have gauva paste from an impulse buy this summer. I've tried it in lieu of quince paste with provolone (nice, but how much of that can you eat).
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Guava paste is not the same as preserves. The preserves would be thinner. Next time just put the cream cheese mixture into the refrigerator to stiffen it up a little before spreading it. I have had a similar problem with cream cheese frosting before.
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This really didn't work for me. I bought some guava paste on a whim and was looking for a way to use it. To begin, my cream cheese mixture was rather runny (warm day, not the recipe's fault I realize), so "spreading" it onto the pastry was not an option, it oozed far beyond the 1" border. Conversely, the guava mixture (and the previous reviewer is right, it is not a pretty color) was too thick and sticky to dollop with ease, leaving me wondering what would have been so wrong with blending the two mixtures together beforehand. Out of the oven, it just wasn't that great. The cream cheese had an odd texture, and the guava paste just wasn't a hit with me and my boyfriend. I love fresh guavas (when I can get my hands on some), but I'll think twice next time I feel like cooking with paste.
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We were looking for something to do with a guava paste and this turned out really good. The guava paste looked a little like hot dogs inside the pastry. I'm going to have to play around a little to get it to look a bit more appealing to the eye. But the taste was really great, and, once cut up, the appearance problem was nonexistent.
When I Can Get Guava and Cheese Pastry
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