Homemade Alfajores
Valentines Day may be over, but some sweethearts’ sweet teeth aren’t satiated. I remember the first time I tried an alfajor I was completely shocked that something so sticky, sugary and sinful could exist. It was so sweet that I couldn’t finish it and it made me feel sick afterwards.
My blood sugar levels have since adjusted to the Argentine setting. I elected to make some alfajores of my own. The recipe is simplistic and the results impressive.
Ingredients:
- Mini Tapitas, or comparable shortbread cookie
- Dulce de leche, Estilo Colonial
- Chocolate bano de repostera, melted in the bag by submerging in hot water.
Directions:
- Take two Tapitas and put a dollop of dulce de leche on one side, and make a sandwich.
- Take the sandwich and dip in melted chocolate. This is optional. You could also roll in coconut flakes.
- Let the chocolate harden on a piece of wax paper. Enjoy!
Vivi moved to Buenos Aires, searching.
OMG I want to eat the screen. I miss these SO bad!!!!!
they’re easy to replicate! also learned last weekend that should one ever be in a dulce de leche emergency, simple boil a can of condensed milk for like 4 hours and voila!
Being from Boise, it is so much fun seing all this stuff from Argentina that I miss from time to time. It is so weird that eating a half dozen Facturas cada dia no es un problema para mi (any longer)… Love it. I never really fit in in Buenos Aires but it was a rad city. I’d like something maybe double the size of Mendoza but along the coast. I haven’t found it.
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