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Alfajores Cookies Recipe (Dulce de Leche Cookies)

These Alfajores Cookies are so easy to make. Two butter cookies sandwiches with dulce de leche
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 35 minutes
Servings: 20 cookies
Author: Valentina

Ingredients

  • 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • ½ tsp baking powder
  • 1 cup unsalted butter
  • cup sugar
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • 1 Tbsp whole milk
  • 1 tsp vanilla

Instructions

  • Line a large rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper and preheat oven to 350°F.
  • In a medium bowl, combine the flour, salt and baking powder. Once combined, sift the flour through a sieve.
  • Beat the butter and sugar until creamy, add the milk and vanilla and mix until incorporated.
  • Add the flour mixture and with a dough hook (or by hand) mix until incorporated.
  • Divide the dough into two equal parts. Flour surface and rolling pin and roll the dough out until it’s about ¼ of an inch in thickness.
  • Take a cookie cutter that’s two and a half inches in diameter and make about 18-20 cookies per part. (Pro tip: You’ll get less than 20 but then you’ll remove the rounds and make few more cookies with leftover dough.)
  • Repeat with second disk then cut make a hole in the center, we just used the end of a piping tip.
  • Transfer the cookie rounds onto your lined baking sheet and bake 11-13 minutes, or until golden in color.
  • Cool cookies completely and take the whole disks and add about 1 ½ teaspoons of the dulce de leche and spread it evenly. Top with the disks that have a whole in the center. Repeat with remaining cookies and dust with powdered sugar.
  • Serve and Enjoy, Friends.