
How To Make Peruvian Alfajores with Manjar Blanco
These flaky and sweet Peruvian Alfajores are delicious cookie bites, loaded with a lusciously tasteful Spanish dulce de leche filling, for a decadent snack!
Serves:
Ingredients
- 2cupswhite sugar
- 3butter sticks
- 5cupscornstarch
- 2cupsall purpose flour
- 4eggs
- 3tbsppisco
- 2tspvanilla extract
- 1tspbaking powder
- 3tbspwater,or as needed
- 2tbspconfectioners’ sugar,or as needed
For the Manjar Blanco:
- 14ozsweetened condensed milk,(2 cans)
- 6ozevaporated milk,(1 can)
- ¼cupbrown sugar
- ¼cupconfectioners’ sugar,or to taste
Instructions
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Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F.
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Beat the white sugar and butter together in a large bowl using an electric mixer until creamy. Add the cornstarch, flour, eggs, pisco, vanilla extract, and baking powder. Mix gently until combined.
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Turn the dough out onto a clean work surface and knead by hand until smooth. Add water as needed.
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Divide in half, refrigerate 1 portion, and leave the other out.
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Coat the work surface with powdered sugar. Roll dough out to ¼-inch thickness and cut into 2-inch rounds with a cookie cutter or shot glass.
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Place the rounds close together on a baking sheet. Prick each cookie twice with a fork.
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Bake in the preheated oven for 10 minutes; the cookies should still be white and soft, not crispy, and will firm up as they cool. Repeat with remaining cookie dough.
Manjar Blanco:
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Pour the condensed milk, evaporated milk, and brown sugar into a saucepan over medium-low heat. Stir for 20 to 30 minutes, constantly until the filling approaches the consistency of thick caramel.
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Remove from heat; the mixture will firm up as it cools to room temperature for about 30 minutes.
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Pour the confectioners’ sugar into a shallow bowl.
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Spread about ½ tablespoon of the filling over cooled cookies. Attach every 2 cookies together to make the alfajores.
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Roll the alfajores in confectioners’ sugar.
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Serve and enjoy!
Nutrition
- Calories:Â 198.23kcal
- Fat:Â 7.11g
- Saturated Fat:Â 4.37g
- Trans Fat:Â 0.23g
- Monounsaturated Fat:Â 1.91g
- Polyunsaturated Fat:Â 0.34g
- Carbohydrates:Â 31.10g
- Fiber:Â 0.26g
- Sugar:Â 14.89g
- Protein:Â 1.98g
- Cholesterol:Â 32.35mg
- Sodium:Â 29.37mg
- Calcium:Â 45.31mg
- Potassium:Â 55.50mg
- Iron:Â 0.41mg
- Vitamin A: 62.46µg
- Vitamin C:Â 0.28mg
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