Baking
Chilean Alfajores
Soft cookie sandwiches filled with dulce de leche and rolled in coconut.
Vegetarian
Ingredients
- 200 g flour
- 100 g cornstarch
- 100 g softened butter
- 80 g powdered sugar
- 2 egg yolks
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 400 g dulce de leche for filling
- 100 g shredded coconut
Step-by-step
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- Put the butter, powdered sugar and egg yolks in the mixing bowl and mix 20 sec/speed 4.
- Add the flour, cornstarch, baking powder and vanilla and mix 20 sec/speed 6.
- Knead 1 min/closed lid/dough mode until a soft dough forms.
- Roll out the dough to 1/2 cm and cut circles with a cutter.
- Bake 12 min/170°C without letting them brown much; let cool.
- Sandwich the cookies in pairs with plenty of dulce de leche.
- Roll the edges in shredded coconut.
Tips
- Sprinkle powdered sugar over the assembled alfajores.
- Store in an airtight tin to keep them soft.
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