Alfajor's Recipe!

Our Chef Pablo Peralta shared with us this delicious recipe of Alfajor, one of the great symbols of Argentine cuisine. Travel with us by baking these delicious biscuits!

Ingredients

150g butter
150g sugar
15g Cognac
½ Lemon zest
Vanilla Extract (to taste)
9 egg yolk
400g Corn Starch
100g Wheat Flour T45
10g Chemical Yeast

Filling:

500 g Dulce de leche
300g grated coconut

Method

Mix the butter with the sugar and work until it turns white

Add cognac, lemon zest and vanilla extract, until the mixture is smooth
Add the egg yolks one by one
Add the flour together with the corn starch and the chemical yeast
When the dough is formed, let stand in the refrigerator for two hours

Roll out the dough with the help of a pasta roller until it is 7mm thick
Cut the dough into 6 cm discs

Bake at 160 ° for 15 min.
Let it cool and add dulce de leche and shredded coconut as a filling