Puerto Rican Quesitos Recipe

By Andy Tous on RecetasPuertoRico.com

These “quesitos” (keh-see-tohs) are one of the most delicious and memorable puff pastries from Puerto Rico. Want to prepare your own? Here is a quick and easy recipe to prepare these great treats.

Ingredients

• 1 puff pastry sheet. Preferably Pepperidge Farm. These are commonly available frozen area in most supermarkets and two sheets are included in each package.
• 1 stick 8 ounces of cream cheese.
• 1 cup of sugar.
• Additional ½ cup sugar.
• Egg white from 1 egg.
• ½ cup of honey.

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 ° f
2. Soften cream cheese at room temperature.
3. Mix cream cheese and 1 cup sugar until well combined.
4. Beat egg whites with ¼ cup honey until they foam. Do not discard the rest of the honey.
5. Cut the pastry sheets into 3 x 3 squares. If you use the dough we recommend, they should yield about 9 squares of equal size.
6. Pour a tablespoon of cream cheese from corner to corner on each square.
7. To roll, first place one corner over the cheese filling.
8. Using a brush, add some egg white and honey to the first corner you’ve just folded.
9. Now fold the other corner to overlap and cover the corner you just washed with egg white and honey.
10. Once rolled, brush the entire outside of the pastry with egg white and honey.
11. Sprinkle the egg white and honey covered pastry with sugar.
12. Using a cookie sheet, place a sheet of parchment paper.
13. Place the pastries on top of the paper.
14. Repeat this process until you’ve completed all of the squares.
15. Bake for 20 minutes or until golden brown (as pictured).
16. Remove from oven and let cool to room temperature.
17. Optionally, you could caramelize more and make it gooey by brushing a thin layer of pure honey over the pastry while still in the oven .

Bon Appetite!

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