Chocolate alfajores

Chocolate alfajores

DessertUruguayan
Prep: 10 mins
Total: 1 hr 10 mins

Ingredients

  • 150g - Butter
  • 70g - Sugar
  • 1 - Egg
  • 25g - Honey
  • 175g - All purpose flour
  • 80g - Cornstarch
  • 30g - Unsweetened Cocoa
  • 1 tsp - Baking Powder
  • 1 tsp - Baking Powder
  • 400g - Dulce de leche
  • 500g - Milk Chocolate
  • 100g - Butter
  • Zest of 1 - Orange

Instructions

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.