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Alfajores
This easy alfajores recipe makes delicate shortbread cookies filled with dulce de leche. These melt-in-your-mouth cookies are rolled in shredded coconut. They make a delicious dessert or treat!
Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
15 mins
Additional Time
30 mins
Total Time
57 mins
Servings: 11 sandwich cookies
Calories: 193 kcal
Course:
Dessert
Cuisine:
South American
Ingredients
Cookie Dough
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder
- 7 ½ tablespoons butter softened
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Filling
- 13.4 ounce can of dulce de leche
- ⅓ cup of shredded coconut
Instructions
- Add all of the dry ingredients to a stand mixer.
- Mix on low just until combined.
- Add in the butter and mix just until incorporated.
- Mix in vanilla and egg on medium speed until the dough is combined.
- Roll the dough to 1/4 inch on a baking sheet.
- Covern and chill for at least 30 minutes.
- Remove the dough from the refrigerator and cut out your cookies. I used a 2-1/2 inch cookie cutter.
- Place the cut out dough on a baking sheet.
- Bake for 12 to 15 minutes, or until the edges just beginning to turn golden brown.
- Remove to a wire cooling rack, and let the cookies cool to room temperature.
- Flip half of the cookies flat side up.
- When you're ready to fill the cookies, mix the dulce de leche with a spoon until it is soft and spreadable.
- Fill a piping bag ¾ full with dulce de leche.
- Pipe 1 ½ tablespoons of dulce de leche caramel onto each bottom cookie.
- Top with another cookie and add some shredded coconut around the sides, pressing it in so that it sticks to the dulce de leche border.
- Chill the cookies until the caramel has set up.
- Serve and enjoy!
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Notes
- Flour: Properly measuring the flour is key. To properly measure the flour either weigh it or sift/stir the flour to break it up. Then lightly spoon into a measuring cup and level.
- Butter: I use salted butter. If using unsalted butter, add a pinch or two of salt.
- Coconut: I use sweetened shredded coconut but unsweetened coconut will also work.
- Nutrition values are estimates.
Nutrition Information
Serving
1sandwich cookie
Calories
193kcal
(10%)
Carbohydrates
24g
(8%)
Protein
3g
(6%)
Fat
9g
(14%)
Saturated Fat
6g
(30%)
Polyunsaturated Fat
1g
Monounsaturated Fat
2g
Trans Fat
1g
Cholesterol
35mg
(12%)
Sodium
75mg
(3%)
Potassium
51mg
(1%)
Fiber
1g
(4%)
Sugar
7g
(14%)
Vitamin A
260IU
(5%)
Vitamin C
1mg
(1%)
Calcium
12mg
(1%)
Iron
1mg
(6%)
Nutrition Facts
Serving: 11sandwich cookies
Amount Per Serving
Calories 193
% Daily Value*
| Serving | 1sandwich cookie | |
| Calories | 193kcal | 10% |
| Carbohydrates | 24g | 8% |
| Protein | 3g | 6% |
| Fat | 9g | 14% |
| Saturated Fat | 6g | 30% |
| Polyunsaturated Fat | 1g | 6% |
| Monounsaturated Fat | 2g | 10% |
| Trans Fat | 1g | 50% |
| Cholesterol | 35mg | 12% |
| Sodium | 75mg | 3% |
| Potassium | 51mg | 1% |
| Fiber | 1g | 4% |
| Sugar | 7g | 14% |
| Vitamin A | 260IU | 5% |
| Vitamin C | 1mg | 1% |
| Calcium | 12mg | 1% |
| Iron | 1mg | 6% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.