DULCE DE LECHE COOKIES
Servings
Makes 12 cookies
Total time
1
hourDulce 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.
Ingredients
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
Instructions
- In a bowl, whisk together the flour, cornstarch, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Roll the dough portion to 1/4 inch thickness and then cut into 12 2-inch rounds, re-rolling scraps if necessary.
- 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.
- 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.
