The Coconuts Recipe Corner: Pascale’s Kitchen: Tantalizing coconut treats - Alfajores de maicena con dulce de leche

 

Pascale’s Kitchen: Tantalizing coconut treats -

Alfajores de maicena con dulce de leche

I was quite surprised to say the very least. I’m used to people telling me they aren’t fans of poppyseed, but coconut?

By PASCALE PEREZ-RUBIN, Jerusalem Post,  MARCH 24, 2022

https://www.jpost.com/food-recipes/article-702212

Alfajores de maicena con dulce de leche (credit: PASCALE PEREZ-RUBIN)

The recipe, which hails from Argentinian cuisine, is for alfajores de maicena con dulce de leche, which you may have seen on many a bakery or café. These sandwich cookies – filled with dulce de leche, then rolled in coconut flakes – are my favorite food coming out of Argentina. 

They can be baked ahead of time and stored in the freezer, and the dulce de leche can be kept in the fridge. This way, when guests pop over, you can quickly assemble this fantastic treat in just a few minutes.

Makes 30

Ingredients 

Dough:

• 200 gr. butter, at room temperature
• 2 eggs
• ½ cup sugar
• 1 ¾ cups cornflour
• 1 1/3 cups flour, sifted
• 1 packet baking powder

Filling:

• 1 small jar of dulce de leche
• Topping:
• 100 gr. coconut flakes

Directions

Add the butter, eggs and sugar to the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a flat beater. Mix well. Add the cornflour, flour and baking powder. Continue mixing the dough until it softens.

Sprinkle a bit of flour on your work surface, and then roll out the dough. Cut out circles with a diameter of 3 cm. or 4 cm.

Place the circles on a tray lined with baking paper and bake for 6 minutes in an oven that has been preheated to 180°. The cookies should remain white. Remove and let cool.

Place half of the cookies with the flat, smooth side facing up. Add 1 teaspoon of dulce de leche on each one, then close with another cookie on top.

In a small pot, melt two tablespoons of dulce de leche with a little hot water, and mix well. Pour the coconut flakes into another bowl.

Take each “sandwich” and roll the side with the filling first in the melted dulce de leche, then in coconut flakes.

Level of difficulty: Medium.Time: 30 minutes.Status: Dairy.

Enjoy

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