I finally got around to using one of the ginormous cans of guava paste @gooddayphoto brought me when she visited early this year. The most obvious application was going to be these cream cheese pastries I’d been meaning to try but for the relative unavailability of the paste here. The puff pastry was challenging to handle for the lack of a binding agent, but eventually I got it to work. It was nowhere as puffy as I would have preferred either, but it was still delicious and flaky, and it nicely complemented the tangy guayaba and cream cheese filling. So, thank you, Marie, for giving me the opportunity to briefly escape to a Cuban bakery without actually having to fly to one 😁. Now, to figure out what to do with the remaining 17 oz. of paste…😅