Cookies filled with dulce de leche and chocolate

Cookies filled with dulce de leche and chocolate

Dulce de Leche Sandwich Cookies or Alfajores are soft, tender cookies filled with deliciously sweet dulce de leche. These melt-in-your-mouth sandwich cookies can be served as is. These dulce de leche cookies are soft shortbread cookies filled with caramel like dulce de leche

Ingredients 

•  shortbread dough
•  150g lard (butter)
•  100g of powdered sugar (icing)
•  225g flour 0000
•  25g corn starch
•  5g of baking powder
•  1 pinch of salt
•  1 egg
•  1 tablespoon of vanilla essence

 Besides

•  Chocolate cover
•  500g of pastry dulce de leche

 Procedure

 Form a sandblasting with cold butter, sugar, flour, starch, baking powder and salt.

 Join the dough with the egg bound with the essence of vanilla.  

Form the dough with the help of a spatula or cornet, without kneading. 

 Stretch between two pieces of film until the dough reaches 4 mm thick and take it to cold for 20 minutes.

 Cut 4 cm diameter discs and rings of the same diameter. 

 Bake at 170°C for 7 minutes and then cool to room temperature.

 Bathe the rings with melted chocolate and place dulce de leche on the discs.  Bind.

NOTES

Use room temperature ingredients. It is important that you use room-temperature ingredients like eggs and butter. This step ensures that your mixture mixes into a homogenous mixture and bakes perfectly.