Alfajores, Classic Peruvian Dulce de Leche Cookies
Classic Peruvian alfajores: buttery shortbread cookies filled with dulce de leche and dusted with powdered sugar. Melt-in-your-mouth texture, tested over 200 times. Easy to make at home
Servings 25 small alfajores
Equipment
- circular cookie cutter
Ingredients
- 2 Cups of Pastry flour or all purpose flour
- 1/2 Cup Caster Sugar
- 1 Teaspoon of Salt
- 180 gr of Butter
- 250 gr of “Dulce de Leche”
- Extra Caster sugar to sprinkle of top of the Alfajores
Instructions
- In a bowl sift all the dried ingredients ( Flour + Caster Sugar + Salt)
- Butter has to be at room temperature (cut butter into cubes), integrate your flour and butter until you a crumbling texture(use a fork), shape it like a ball and let it rest for at least 30 min. Do not knead this dough otherwise your cookies will end too hard.
- Before the 30 min pass, set your oven at 350F/180C
- After it rested ,roll your dough about 4mm and with cookie cutter shape the dough, bake your Alfajores at 350 F / 180 C for 9 min.
- Let them cool for 10 min and then put some“Dulce de Leche” on each side of the cookie and assemble the cookies sandwiches and dust some caster sugar on top.