Alfajores

Description

Another delicious cookie, this time the Argentine. Crisp-tender, flavorful, with a rich creamy flavor, accentuated a layer of boiled condensed milk, rolled in coconut flakes, it's gorgeous!

Ingredients

Butter

150 g
Powdered sugar

0.66 cup
Chicken egg

1 piece
Yolk egg

2 piece
Flour

1.5 cup
Corn starch

1 cup
Leavening agent

1 tsp
Vanilla

1 pinch
Condensed milk

0.5 can
Coconut shavings

20 g

Cooking

Softened butter (do not substitute with margarine –not the taste) whipped with powdered sugar and vanilla.

Add the egg and yolks and again carefully whisk. Best if the yolks are large and a whole egg smaller.

Double-sift the mixture of flour, starch and baking powder ( I take TM "Haas").

Pour flour mixture into the oil and quickly, with a spatula, knead the dough is thick plastic. To put it in a bag and placed in a refrigerator not less than 2 hours, preferably more. I left for the night.

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Roll out the dough with a layer of about one cm and a small clearing cut out an even number of circles.

Spread on the laid parchment sheet and bake 12 - 15, until light pink blush.

Cool on the sheet until lukewarm state and to put two layer of condensed milk, and lubricating the edges of the pastry. To laminate the edges of the cookies in coconut flakes and allow to soak in for an hour