Chocolate alfajores
Dessert
Uruguayan

Chocolate alfajores

Ingredients

  • Butter150g
  • Sugar70g
  • Egg1
  • Honey25g
  • All purpose flour175g
  • Cornstarch80g
  • Unsweetened Cocoa30g
  • Baking Powder1 tsp
  • Baking Powder1 tsp
  • Dulce de leche400g
  • Milk Chocolate500g
  • Butter100g
  • OrangeZest of 1

Preparation Steps

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.