Alfajores | Eating with Andy

butter

🥗Healthier: coconut oil

💰Cheaper: margarine

Coconut oil adds a unique flavor while reducing saturated fats.

dulce de leche

🥗Healthier: Greek yogurt

💰Cheaper: sweetened condensed milk

Greek yogurt provides creaminess with less sugar.

Peel the labels off two cans of condensed milk and place them in a large pot with cold water.

Bring the water to a boil, then reduce the heat to low and cover the pot to simmer for two hours.

Check the pot every 30 minutes to ensure the cans are covered with water to prevent them from exploding.

After two hours, carefully remove the cans from the water and allow them to cool completely for at least one hour.

Preheat the oven to 150 degrees Celsius and line baking trays with baking paper.

Sift 4 cups of plain flour, 8 tablespoons of icing sugar, and a pinch of salt into a bowl.

Add 400 grams of cubed cold butter to the dry ingredients.

Place the mixture into a mixer with a paddle attachment and cover with a tea towel to prevent mess.

Mix until it resembles fine breadcrumbs and holds its shape when pressed with fingers.

Transfer the dough to a clean surface and work it until it is malleable, being careful not to overwork it to avoid tough biscuits.

Split the dough in half for easier handling.

Roll out the dough to around 3 to 5 millimeters of thickness on a floured surface and cut out shapes using a cookie cutter.

Place the cut-out biscuits close together on the baking tray as they won't expand much during baking.

Bake the biscuits in the oven for around 12 to 15 minutes until they are firm and pale golden.

Transfer the baked biscuits to a wire rack to cool completely before filling them with dulce de leche.

Open the cooled dulce de leche and fill a piping bag with it, cutting the tip with scissors.

Carefully pipe the dulce de leche onto one biscuit and sandwich it with another biscuit.

Dust the assembled alfajores with icing sugar.

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