These cookies are sweet, soft, delicate, filled with dulce de leche and they will slowly melt in your mouth. Alfajor cookies are really easy to make and even though this is the classic recipe, remember you can always use recipes as a guide and give them your own style. If you are not a dulce de leche fan change it for some Nutella or even your favorite jam.

Preparation time: 30 minutes
Yields: 24 cookies

Ingredients:

• 2/3 cup of butter, room temperature
• 1 ½ cups of all-purpose flour
• ¾ cup of cornstarch
• ½ cup of white sugar
• 2 egg yolks, room temperature
• 1 cup of dulce de leche
• 1/2 cup of shredded coconut, optional
• A pinch of salt

Method:

For the cookies:

1. Take a bowl and add in the flour, cornstarch and salt, combine a little bit with a whisker and set aside.
2. In another bowl, using an electric mixer or by hand, whisk the egg yolks and sugar until really pale. This will take you around 3-5 minutes.
3. Add the room temperature butter and keep whisking for another minute.
4. Incorporate the dry ingredients into the wet mixture and fold them in until you aren’t able to see the flour.
5. Chill your cookie dough for one hour. You need it to be firm.
6. Roll your chilled dough over a floured flat surface. You want it to be about 5-mm thick.
7. Using a 5-cm cookie cutter, or something else with a round shape, cut your alfajores.
8. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
9. Bake the cookies for 10 minutes.
10. Take the cookies out of the oven and let them cool down before filling them.
11. When the cookies are completely cool, spread some dulce de leche over one cookie and use it as a glue to stick another cookie on top.
12. Roll the edges over shredded coconut to give them extra flavor. This step is optional, you can also use sprinkles or chopped nuts.