If you are looking for a simple, unfussy dessert that features guava paste, you will love this rich, buttery, and crumbly guava and cream cheese cake. It’s a fun idea for a Latin twist on the classic French Gateau Breton cake, which has a very decadent texture that dances between a shortbread and a pound cake. You only need a handful of ingredients and a few hours to have this easy guava cake on your plate. This is a recipe that always impresses everyone around you, but the person most impressed will be yourself!

For many of us, childhood flavors are the answers to most of our problems. Well, maybe not most of them to be honest, but definitely the ones that can be solved by regulating our nervous system with a trip back to those simpler days. For me, the combination of guava and cream cheese is one of those emotional tools I have guarded deep in my pockets. To this day, there’s not an issue that a guava and cream cheese pastry with a cafecito won’t solve…