Three Guys From Miami: Cuban and Spanish Food Recipes

Jorge Castillo: Even Cubans enjoy a peanut butter and jelly sandwich now and then.

Raúl Musibay: We don't use grape or strawberry like most of our non-Cuban friends do.

Jorge Castillo: We usually use a jelly with tropical flavor, like guava or mango.

Glenn Lindgren: Here's a recipe that puts that unique flavor combination in a delicious cookie. This is one of Marlen Roth's originals.

A Marlen Roth Legacy Recipe


Torticas de Guayaba -- Guava and Peanut Butter Cookies

By Three Guys From Miami



Prep time: 25 minutes
Cook time: 15 minutes
Total time: 40 minutes
Yield: 2 dozen

Guava and Peanut Butter together at last -- in a cookie!

INGREDIENTS:

3/4 cup creamy peanut butter
1/2 cup shortening (butter-flavored Crisco works great!)
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup light brown sugar, packed
1 egg
1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt

Filling:

1 (17-ounce jar) guava jelly (more or less)
Preheat oven to 375°F.

Beat peanut butter, shortening and both sugars until well blended. Beat in the egg. Stir together flour, baking soda, and salt. Gradually beat into peanut butter mixture.

Shape dough into one-inch balls. Place on a cookie sheet two inches apart. Place thumb in center of each ball to make an indentation (or use the handle of a wooden spoon). Bake 8-10 minutes or until just set.

Remove from oven. Immediately fill centers with guava jelly (placing the jelly in a plastic bottle with a cone tip makes filling the centers easier).

Cool 10 minutes. Remove from cookie sheet.

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