Puerto Rican Quesitos - Cheese Pastries
Delicious traditional "quesitos" easy to make with only 4 ingredients.
Servings: 24 pastries
Cost: $6
Equipment
- Oven
Ingredients
- 0.75 8 oz bar Cream Cheese
- 1 unit Large Egg (only whites)
- 2 tsp Granulated Sugar
- 2 tsp Granulated Sugar (to sprinkle)
- 1 box Puff Pastry Sheets
Instructions
- Soften the cream cheese by warming for 20 seconds in the microwave
- Mix in sugar into the soften cream cheese
- Cut each sheet of puff pastry into 12 small rectangles (see pictures/video)
- Sprinkle each rectangle with a bit of sugar
- Place a dollop of cream cheese mixture in the center of the rectangle
- Fold the pastries following the Fold, Fold, Pinch and Twist technique (see pictures/video)
- Whisk the whites of one egg until foamy
- Cover each pasty with the bubbles or foam from the egg whites
- Sprinkle each pastry with sugar
- Cover a large cookie baking sheet with aluminum foil and slightly mist with non-stick spray
- Transfer each pastry and place about 1" apart
- Bake in an oven at 400 F degrees for 13 minutes
- Let them rest for 15 minutes
- Enjoy!