Chocolate alfajores

Category: 

Dessert

Area: 

Uruguayan

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Ingredients

  • Butter  -  150g
  • Sugar  -  70g
  • Egg  -  1
  • Honey  -  25g
  • All purpose flour  -  175g
  • Cornstarch  -  80g
  • Unsweetened Cocoa  -  30g
  • Baking Powder  -  1 tsp
  • Baking Powder  -  1 tsp
  • Dulce de leche  -  400g
  • Milk Chocolate  -  500g
  • Butter  -  100g
  • Orange  -  Zest of 1

Instructions

For the cookies cream the butter with the sugar for a few minutes. Then add the egg and honey and mix well. Add flour, cornstarch, cocoa, baking soda and baking powder and mix until you get a dough. Wrap in plastic wrap and chill for at least half an hour or overnight.

2
Line two baking sheets with parchment paper, preheat oven to 200 degrees Celsius.

3
Divide dough into two parts, put one part back in the fridge before using. Roll out second part to about 2 millimeters and cut out round cookies with 5-6 centimeters in diameter. This can be done with a cookie cutter or glass. You should get 30 cookies in total or even more, I get about 40. Bake one baking sheet at the time for about 8-10min. Let cookies cool.

4
For the filling look for two cookies of the same size and place about one teaspoon of dulce de leche onto the bottom one before sandwiching together.

5
Chop semi-sweet chocolate and melt with butter and orange zest on low heat. Dunk each sandwich cookie into the chocolate and let cool off on parchment paper before serving.