For the second day of Mega Blogging Marathon – International, we travel to Bolivia which is one of the Latin American countries. Latin America is the sub region of America which has 22 countries where Spanish and Potuguese are spoken. Bolivia is a land locked country and shares its boundaries with Brazil to the north and east, Paraguay and Argentina to the south, Chile to the southwest and Peru to the west. Because of the Spanish Colonisation, the cuisine of Bolivia is so much like the Spanish Cuisine. The cookie I chose to make today is also a Spanish cookie famous in the Latin American region.
Alfajores are corn flour cookies. They are slightly soft and crisp at the same time. These are sandwiched cookies use Dulce De Leche as the filling. Dulce De Leche is sweetened caramalised milk famous in the Latin American region. The easier home made verison of dulce de leche is made with condensed milk can. I had 1/2 cup of home made dulce de leche in my fridge and so I used it in the recipe. The cookies turned out so nice and the dulce de liche added a nice flavour to the cookies. I made the eggless version as the original recipe had egg yolks in the dough. The dough is quite sticky and tricky to work with. The secret of getting it right is chilling it properly. Chill the dough until it is firm yet rollable. If at any moment the dough becomes soft, just put it back in the fridge until it firms. Otherwise the cookie making will become a horrible experience. I halved the original recipe and got nearly 22 sandwich cookies. Mine were not as cute as the original as the original recipe had some interesting toppings to coat the side of the cookies. But I didn’t coat the cookies.
Place the unopened condensed milk tin inside the water and let the water boil for 3 hours.
The tin should be immersed in water for the whole time, otherwise it will burst. So be careful.
After 3 hours, remove the tin from the water and allow it to cool.
Open the can and dulce de liche is ready.
Eggless Alfajores
Ingredients
For The Cookies
- cup Corn Flour-1/2+ 1/8 cup
- Flour/ Maida-1/2 cup
- Baking Powder-1/2 tsp
- Salt-a pinch
- Butter-5 tbs
- Sugar-1/3 cup
- Milk-1/8 cup
- Vanilla Essence-1/2 tsp
- One Can Condensed Milk
- tbs Icing Sugar-2-3for dusting
Instructions
For The Cookies
- Cream together butter, sugar and vanilla essence.
- Add milk and beat until creamy.
- Add flour, corn flour, salt and baking powder and mix well.
- Add it the butter mixture and mix to form a sticky dough.
- Transfer to a cling wrap and cover tightly.
- Refrigerate for 30 minutes to one hour.
- Preheat oven to 175°C.
- Grease a baking tray with butter or line it with baking paper.
- Roll the dough between two parchment papers to 1/8" thickness.
- Cut with a cookie cutter and arrange them on the tray.
- Gather the remaining dough, roll again and cut.
- Bake the cookies for 10-12 minutes or until golden.
- Leave it on the tray for 10 minutes before transferring them to the wire rack.
- Allow it to cool completely.
For Dulce De Leche
- Take a big deep pan and fill it to 3/4th with water.
- Bring it to boil.
- Place the unopened condensed milk tin inside the water and let the water boil for 3 hours.
- The tin should be immersed in water for the whole time, otherwise it will burst. So be careful.
- After 3 hours, remove the tin from the water and allow it to cool.
- Open the can and dulce de liche is ready.
Sandwiching the Cookies
- Take a teaspoon of the dulce de leche and spread at the bottom of a cookie.
- Place another cookie to make a sandwich.
- Arrange all the sanwiched cookies on a tray.
- Dust with icing sugar.
- Serve or store in an air tight jar.
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I believe the decorations are just extra add-ons. Your version looks awesome too in your daughter’s beautifully mehendied hand. 🙂
Beautiful, light and fluffy. Very well presented too.
Wow love that cookie in that little hand beautiful pic. and no words to say for your baking fantastic.
Another awesome cookie Gayathri…I love that dulce de leche is stuffed..it must have given such a delicious texture to the cookie..
Omg, wish i live near you to get a box of this addictive cookies, love that this cookies have DDL..
Perfectly baked cookies. Beautiful clicks, specially the one on your daughter’s hand I think.
wow gayathiri loving your cookie series 🙂 alfajores sandwiched with dulce looks very addictive 🙂 love the mehandi in your daughter hand 🙂
I loved these entirely when made for Argentina – yours look too good
Gayathri these cookies look fantastic. .very well presented and I guess you are a master at converting the recipes with eggs
awesome gayathri..this wil lsit in the collection of beautiful cookies..you have mastered the art
Delicious gayathri! ! Love that shape too. When I made them kuttu just enjoyed licking off that DDL off the cookie!!!
Cookies are looking very tasty and beautiful..
Hii mam can we add any other essence like rose or something else for different flavours other than vanilla essence…
Yes, you can add a y kind of flavour to make a difference flavoured cookie.
Beautiful cookies gayathri.. They are cute & perfect.
Ma’m, can I substitute corn flour with almond flour?
Yes, I guess you can do that.
Hi wanting to try this recipe since my kids love dulce de le che
Wanted to know One thing is can you pls let share the measurement in gms or ml mentioned of the half cup you used for this recipe. since 1 cup measures differently in Europe and in the US
Thank you
My one cup equals 130 gm all purpose flour/maida, 100 gm corn flour, 200 gm sugar, 200 gm butter, 200 ml of any liquid. Hope this helps.