Dulce de Leche Cookies or Alfajores are found throughout Spain, South America, Mexico and the Caribbean. These delicate, sandwich cookies feature crumbly layers with a luscious dulce de leche filling. We leaned on convenient, canned dulce de leche for the filling and upped the salt a tad in the dough to offset the sweetness. We love the crunchy bite of our Baker’s Salt for baking for highlighting flavors and textures.
Time: 1 hour
Makes 12 cookiesRating
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Loading...| 3/4 cup all-purpose flour | |
| 1 cup cornstarch | |
| 1/2 tsp baking soda | |
| 3/4 tsp Baker's Salt | |
| 1 stick butter, softened | |
| 1/3 cup granulated sugar | |
| 2 tsp lemon zest | |
| 2 egg yolks | |
| 1 Tbl water | |
| 2 tsp Pure Mexican Vanilla | |
| 1 can Dulce de Leche | |
| Powdered Sugar for dusting |
| 1. | In a bowl, whisk together the flour, cornstarch, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. |
| 2. | In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the softened butter and sugar until light in fluffy, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed. |
| 3. | Next, beat in the lemon zest, egg yolks, water and vanilla. Slowly add the flour mixture. Mix just until it is combined, but don’t over mix. Form dough into a disk then wrap in plastic wrap. Place in the fridge and chill until it is firm, about 1 hour. |
| 4. | Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and lightly flour a work surface. Cut the dough in half and return unused portion to the fridge. |
| 5. | Roll the dough portion to 1/4 inch thickness and then cut into 12 2-inch rounds, re-rolling scraps if necessary. |
| 6. | Place the dough onto prepared baking sheets. Bake in the oven for 11-13 minutes, or until they are just golden on the bottom edges. The cookies will be quite pale on top. Remove the cookies to a cooling rack to cool completely. Repeat with remaining dough half. You will have 24 cookies after baking. |
| 7. | Once the cookies have cooled, place a heaping tablespoon dulce de leche on the flat surface of a cookie and top with a second cookie. Press gently to sandwich them together. Repeat with the remaining cookies. Dust with powdered sugar. |
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