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Alfajores – Argentine dulce de leche cookies
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Alfajores – Argentine dulce de leche cookies

Buttery shortbread biscuits filled with dulce de leche and rolled in coconut — Argentina's most popular sweet snack.

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37 min total
20 servings
Easy

Ingredients

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  • Biscuits

    • 7.1 oz Butter, softened
    • 3.5 oz Icing sugar
    • 3 stk Egg yolks
    • 7.1 oz Cornflour
    • 3.5 oz Plain flour
    • 1 tsp Baking powder

  • Filling and coating

    • 10.6 oz Dulce de leche
    • 3.5 oz Desiccated coconut

Instructions

  1. 1

    Cream butter and icing sugar

    1. Cream butter and icing sugar until light. Add egg yolks one at a time.
  2. 2

    Sift cornflour, flour and baking powder

    1. Sift cornflour, flour and baking powder. Fold into butter mixture to a soft dough. Chill 30 min.
  3. 3

    Roll to 5 mm thickness

    1. Roll to 5 mm thickness. Cut circles (about 5 cm). Bake at 160 °C for 10–12 min — they should not colour.
  4. 4

    Sandwich two biscuits with a layer

    1. Sandwich two biscuits with a layer of dulce de leche. Roll the edge in coconut.

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