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Alfajores Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Adacowan / All my dishes 1 year, 11 months ago This Peruvian shortbread cookie filled with "dulce de leche" was very common/popular during my childhood in Peru. It's a little time consuming but fun to make and even more fun to eat! Prep:45m Cook:60m Servings:12	Adacowan
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Ingredients

1 Cup Sugar

3/4 Cups Butter

1 Cup All Purpose Flour

2 1/2 Cups Cornstarch

1 tsp. Vanilla Extract

1/2 Tsp. Baking Powder

1 Egg

2 Egg Yolks

1 can (14oz.) Carnation sweetened condensed milk

Powdered sugar

Grated Coconut (optional)

Directions

In a large bowl, cream the butter and sugar together.

Add the remaining ingredients (except condensed milk) and mix thoroughly.

Knead dough on a floured surface until smooth allowing it to rest for 15-20 minutes before rolling out.

Roll dough to approximately 1/4 inch thickness.

Cut 2 inch rounds (1 inch for bite-size cookies).

Bake on a greased cookie sheet at 300 degrees for 20 minutes.

Let cool completely.

Spread dulce de leche (recipe follows) on one cookie and place another on top thereby making a sandwich cookie. (Personally, I like it as thick as possible)

As an option you can sprinkle the sandwich cookies with powdered sugar. Additionally, you can press cookies so filing squeezes out the side and proceed to roll in grated coconut.

Dulce De Leche:

Pour Sweetened Condensed milk into a pie plate and cover with aluminum foil.

Place pie plate in larger shallow pan filled with hot water.

Bake at 425 for 1 hour or until caramel-colored.

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Comments

berry 1 year, 11 months ago said:
Yes, very popular in South America... I love them.

cubralinda 1 year, 11 months ago said:
Oye que rico!! Los tengo que provar! Gracias por las respueste de los "Briga" espero que te gusten =-0).

coffeebean53 1 year, 10 months ago said:
This one is on my 2008 Christmas cookie list. Outstanding post :)

kukla 1 year, 10 months ago said:
I LOVE dulce de leche AND shortbread! This is very close to shortbread in Scotland, called "Millionaires Shortbread", except the latter is prepared in a pan, with a layer of chocolate, and cut into squares! Great post!

stacip 1 year, 10 months ago said:
I love these!

ambus 1 year, 10 months ago said:
Looks soooooooo good! Thanks for the recipe!

mumtazcatering 1 year, 10 months ago said:
Yummy will try soon

wilz 1 year, 9 months ago said:
I love these!!! I have been looking for this recipe! Thank you!!! Gets my 5 for sure!

juliecake 1 year, 8 months ago said:
Oh yummm! Will definitely be making these.

dynie 1 year, 3 months ago said:
....I like the grated cocoanut...

alfajores 1 year, 2 months ago said:
Alfajores. El alfajor. Argentina. Historia del alfajor, secretos de los alfajores, recetas para hacer alfajores de maicena, diferentes tipos de alfajor. Alfajor santafecino y alfajor cordobes. Marcas de alfajores milka, terrabusi, bagley, capitan del espacio, havanna y balcarce.

http://www.alfajorargentino.com.ar

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