Alfajores

Ingredients(Serves 4):

• One can condensed milk
• ½ cup corn flour
• ½ cup all-purpose flour
• ⅛ cup milk
• 5 tbsp margarine
• ⅓ cup sugar
• 3 tbsp icing sugar, for dusting
• ½ tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp vanilla essence
• Salt to taste

Method

• Prepare Dulce de Leche by boiling unopened condensed milk can in a deep pan filled with water for three hours. Ensure tin is completely immersed else it will burst. Remove tin and cool it.
• Mix milk, margarine, sugar and vanilla essence. Whip until creamy.
• Add both flours, salt and baking powder. Mix well. Add margarine mixture and mix to form dough.
• Transfer it to a cling wrap. Cover tightly. Refrigerate for one hour.
• Preheat the oven to 175°C. Roll the dough between two parchment papers. Bake cookies for twelve minutes until golden brown.
• Spread 1 tsp Dulce de Leche over a cookie. Top it with another cookie.
• Dust with icing sugar and serve.

Recipe Notes