Cuban pastries are baked

Baking

Baking is the technique of prolonged cooking of food by dry heat acting by convection, and not by radiation, normally in an oven, but also in hot ashes, or on hot stones. It is primarily used for the preparation of bread, cakes, pastries and pies, tarts, quiches, cookies and crackers. Such items...

 puff pastry

Puff pastry

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-type pastries

Pastry

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 filled with sweet or savory fillings.

Traditional fillings include cream cheese

Cream cheese

Cream cheese is a soft, mild-tasting, white cheese with a high fat content. Traditionally, it is made from unskimmed milk enriched with additional cream....

, guava

Guava

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 (pastelito de guayaba) and cheese

Cheese

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, pineapple

Pineapple

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, and coconut

Coconut

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. The sweet fillings are made with sweetened fruit pulp

Juice vesicles

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s. The cream cheese filling is also a slightly sweetened version of cream cheese, typically made to resemble the flavor and texture of a cheesecake

Cheesecake

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. The savory fillings are usually beef

Beef

Beef is the culinary name for meat from bovines, especially domestic cattle. Beef can be harvested from cows, bulls, heifers or steers. It is one of the principal meats used in the cuisine of the Middle East , Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Europe and the United States, and is also important in...

, but sometimes chicken

Chicken (food)

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 or ham and cheese

Ham and cheese sandwich

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 are used. The beef fillings consist of a seasoned but not spicy meat, made in a tomato-based sauce

Tomato sauce

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. It is typical to include raisin

Raisin

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s and green olive

Olive

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s as part of the meat filling. It is typical for a sweet glaze to be applied to the top of even savory fillings.

The pastries are typically consumed at any time as a snack or even as a meal. In Miami, one can find many "window cafeterias" with customers having a pastelito with coffee

Coffee

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 throughout the day.

The pastries can be found at many Hispanic

Hispanic

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 cafeterias and have also been introduced into the national retail market by Goya Foods

Goya Foods

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. The pastries are also available in wholesale for the foodservice

Foodservice

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industry by several companies including Hispanic wholesale frozen bakery manufacturer Latin Flavors.