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Alfajores

Filled cookies with manjarblanco (Dulce de leche)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

INGREDIENTS:

 

2 cup of all-purpose flour

1 Whole egg

1 cup powdered sugar

1 cup of corn starch

3 teaspoon milk

1 cup of salted butter

Bakers Joy Spray

Powdered sugar

 

 

PREPARATION:

 

Sift the flour, cornstarch and powdered sugar. Set these dry ingredients in a bowl and cut in butter.

 

Add the egg and mix well until forms a soft dough. (Add a spoon of milk, one at a time, to soften the dough). Let stand for 15 minutes.

 

Cut dough in 4 pieces.

 

Sprinkle some flour over a smooth and clean surface and lay out one piece of the dough, stretch it with a roller to 1/8 inch thickness. With a round cookie cutter make the cookies and lay them on cookie sheet.

 

Spray cookies sheet with Baker's joy.

 

Bake at 350° for approximately 15 minutes or until they are golden brown.

 

Let the cookies dry at least 3 to 4 hours.

 

Apply manjarblanco (Dulce de leche) to one cookie and attach another cookie to make like a sandwich.

 

Sprinkle cookies with powdered sugar to coat all over.