3 Awesomely Decadent Alfajores Recipes

What’s better than a gift from the heart? A gift from the kitchen! Alfajores are little cookies from Latin America filled with oh-so-delicious dulce de leche. The cookies resemble short bread in their sweetness and light texture. With a dusting of powdered sugar and an array of flavors to choose from, these little sandwich cookies are a taste of the sweet life bite for bite. 

Flavors are limited only by your imagination. A traditional alfajor consists of two cookies sandwiched together with dulce de leche filling, rolled in toasted coconut and dusted with confectioner’s sugar. Lime Alfajores swap out the traditional almond flavor for lime and sheds the coconut to showcase dulce de leche in all its glory.

Almond Alfajores come together with shortbread and chopped candied almonds for additional crunch. For chocolate loves, there’s Chile Chocolate dipped cookies, coated in smooth dark chocolate.  

Either way you want to make them, with whatever flavors you fancy, alfajores are a classic Latin American treat that can’t be beat. Bake a batch, wrap them up, add the appropriate gift tag, and let the good times roll.

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Almond Alfajores

• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 cup cornstarch
• 1 cup dulce de leche
• 1/2 cup sugar, granulated
• 4 large egg yolks, beaten
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 teaspoon pure almond extract
• 2 tablespoons dark rum
• 1/8 teaspoon salt

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Chile Chocolate Dipped Alfajores

• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 cup cornstarch
• 1 cup dulce de leche
• 1/2 cup sugar, granulated
• 4 large egg yolks, beaten
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 tablespoons dark rum
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda

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Lime Alfajores

• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 cup cornstarch
• 1 cup dulce de leche
• 1/2 cup sugar, granulated
• 4 large egg yolks, beaten
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 teaspoons lime zest
• 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
• 2 tablespoons dark rum

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