🇦🇷 Argentina cuisine · #6

Alfajores de Maicena

Alfajores de Maicena
Time60 min
Serves20
Ingredients10

Two crumbly cornflour biscuits sandwiched with dulce de leche and edged with coconut — of Andalusian-Arab origin.

Ingredients

Method

  1. Cream butter and sugar, then add yolks, zest and vanilla.
  2. Mix in cornflour, flour and baking powder without overworking.
  3. Roll 5 mm thick, cut rounds and bake at 170°C for 10 minutes without colouring.
  4. Sandwich with dulce de leche and roll the edges in coconut.