Alfajores
Elegant yet approchable with a flavour that is both nostalgic and universally loved!
Ingredients
Cookies
- 100 g butter
- 75 g sugar
- 1 egg + 2 egg yolks
- 130 g flour
- 130 g cornmeal type Maïzena
- 1 ts baking powder
Filling
- 200 g Dulce de Leche milk jam
- 50 g coconut powder
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°
- In a large bowl whisk together the butter and the sugar until you get a creamy dough.
- Add the egg and the egg yolks. Then add the flour, cornmeal and the baking powder.
- Mix again and when you see that you need a little more flour, add the same quantity of flour and cornmeal.
- Roll out the dough on the work surface and cut the cookies out with a cookie cutter. The dough shouldn't be thicker than 3mm.
- Place the cookies on the baking sheet. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes until they get golden brown.
- Spread the Dulce de Leche on one cookie and top with another. Then roll them in coconut powder.
- Enjoy!!!!