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Chocolate alfajores

Chocolate alfajores

Ingredients

  • Butter150g
  • Sugar70g
  • Egg1
  • Honey25g
  • All purpose flour175g
  • Cornstarch80g
  • Unsweetened Cocoa30g
  • Baking Powder1 tsp
  • Baking Powder1 tsp
  • Dulce de leche400g
  • Milk Chocolate500g
  • Butter100g
  • OrangeZest of 1

Steps

Cook

  1. 🥄For the cookies cream the butter with the sugar for a few minutes.

Prepare

  1. 🔥Then add the egg and honey and mix well.
  2. 🧂Add flour, cornstarch, cocoa, baking soda and baking powder and mix until you get a dough.

Steps

  1. 🧂Wrap in plastic wrap and chill for at least half an hour or overnight.
  2. 🍳2

Prepare

  1. 🍳Line two baking sheets with parchment paper, preheat oven to 200 degrees Celsius.

Steps

  1. 🫇3
  2. 🍽️Divide dough into two parts, put one part back in the fridge before using.

Prepare

  1. 🍽️Roll out second part to about 2 millimeters and cut out round cookies with 5-6 centimeters in diameter.
  2. 🌿This can be done with a cookie cutter or glass.

Cook

  1. 🌿You should get 30 cookies in total or even more, I get about
  2. Bake one baking sheet at the time for about 8-10min.
  3. 🥄Let cookies cool.

Steps

  1. 4

Cook

  1. 🥄For the filling look for two cookies of the same size and place about one teaspoon of dulce de leche onto the bottom one before sandwiching together.

Steps

  1. 🔥5

Prepare

  1. 🧂Chop semi-sweet chocolate and melt with butter and orange zest on low heat.

Cook

  1. 🍳Dunk each sandwich cookie into the chocolate and let cool off on parchment paper before serving.

Source: Original recipe