Alfajores with Dulche de Leche

Name: Alfajores with Dulche de Leche
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 12 serving
Ingredients: 400 gram condensed milk; 200 gram plain flour; 100 gram cornflour; 50 gram icing sugar; 1 teaspoon baking powder; 200 gram butter; 1/2 teaspoon vanilla; 1 whole egg

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Prep Time
20 mins
Cook Time
20 mins
Total Time
35 mins
Servings
12
Course
Baked Goods
Cuisine
American

Alfajores with Dulche de Leche

Iris Warren

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You will need : To set the oven to 150 Deg C, a flat baking tray, a rolling pin and three pieces of baking paper, a container to cook the milk in and a water bath. 1 round cutter approximately 6 cm.

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Ingredients

Servings

400 gram condensed milk 1 tin
200 gram plain flour
100 gram cornflour
50 gram icing sugar icing sugar or powdered
1 teaspoon baking powder
200 gram butter unsalted chopped cold
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 whole egg large beaten

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Instructions

Pre-heat the oven to 150 deg C
Caramel: Set the oven to 220 deg C. This caramel needs to be made a couple of hours ahead. Empty the tin of milk into a pot or oven proof container and put a piece of foil on top. Put the pot or the container into a water bath where the water comes half way up the side of the pot you are using. Put into the oven and leave for an hour and a half. The milk will turn a caramel colour. Cool
Put the flour, corn flour, baking powder and pure sugar into a food processor and blitz. Add the chilled butter and whizz till it looks like buttery crumbs. Mix the vanilla and the egg and pour into the food processor while it is mixing. Mix till it is combined and gathers into a ball.
Roll the dough between two pieces of paper till evenly spread to about 1 cm thick. Put onto a tray and chill till very cold.
Cut out circles with a cutter ( the size you like) and put onto a lined flat tray
Bake at 150 deg C for 10-12 minutes. Make sure they don't colour because these should be snowy white biscuits.
Fill a small piping bag with cold caramel or spread the caramel thickly and sandwich two biscuits together. Sprinkle with icing sugar, store in an airtight container if there are any left. Some people prefer them the next day as they soften.