Alfajores (dulce de leche sandwich cookies)

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5.0

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  • Prep Time

    15 mins

  • Cook Time

    15 mins

  • Total Time

    27 mins

  • Servings

    16 small

  • Calories

    109 kcal

  • Course

    Snacks

  • Cuisine

    South American

Alfajores (dulce de leche sandwich cookies)

A delicious combination of crumbly sugar cookies sandwiched together with dulce de leche.

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Ingredients

Servings
  • 4 oz unsalted butter
  • ¼ cup sugar
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 10 tablespoon all purpose flour (10tbsp = ½ cup plus 2tbsp)
  • 10 tablespoon cornstarch cornflour (10tbsp = ½ cup plus 2tbsp)
  • 5 tablespoon dulce de Leche approx
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Instructions

  1. Cream together the sugar and butter in a food processor/stand mixer or with a hand mixer. Add the egg yolk and vanilla and blend in. Add the flour and cornstarch, mix and bring together into a ball. Wrap in cling wrap/film and chill for 30 minutes. 
  2. Part way through cooling, preheat the oven to 350F/175C. 
  3. Once the dough has cooled, roll out the dough relatively thinly (approx ¼in/2-3mm) and cut small circles and place on a lined cookie sheet/baking sheet/tray. Repeat with the rest of the dough. Bake the cookies for approx 1-12 minutes until they are just starting to brown very slightly. They should still be very pale. Leave to cool a minute before transferring to a cooling rack. 
  4. When the cookies are cool, put a small spoonful of dulce de leche on one cookie and press another on top. Make sure you press them together holding the middle of the cookie so the cookies don't break. If needed, twist them slightly to spread out the dulce de leche. While I didn't here, you can roll the outside in coconut if you like, or lightly dust with confectioner's/icing sugar.

Notes

  • Note the number of cookies is based on the small cookie size - you can use slightly bigger but recommend not much above 3in/7.5cm as larger cookies will break more.

Nutrition Information

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Calories 109kcal (5%) Carbohydrates 12g (4%) Fat 6g (9%) Saturated Fat 3g (15%) Cholesterol 27mg (9%) Sodium 1mg (0%) Potassium 6mg (0%) Sugar 3g (6%) Vitamin A 195IU (4%) Calcium 4mg (0%) Iron 0.3mg (2%)

Nutrition Facts

Serving: 16small

Amount Per Serving

Calories 109 kcal

% Daily Value*

Calories 109kcal 5%
Carbohydrates 12g 4%
Fat 6g 9%
Saturated Fat 3g 15%
Cholesterol 27mg 9%
Sodium 1mg 0%
Potassium 6mg 0%
Sugar 3g 6%
Vitamin A 195IU 4%
Calcium 4mg 0%
Iron 0.3mg 2%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

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