Alfajores
Author: Silvia and Grace
Recipe type: Sweets
Cuisine: South American
Serves: 25
- 3 cups of self raising flour
- 2 cups of corn flour
- 2 cups of white sugar
- 5 whole eggs 700 grms
- 6 to 8 table spoons of melted butter
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence
- 1 can of caramel
- Preheat oven to 160 degrees C
- Beat the eggs with the sugar, butter, and vanilla then add the sifted flour and sifted cornflour.
- Knead into a dough on a floured surface then roll out using a rolling pin to ½ cm high.
- Cut into circles using a 5cm cutter or a small glass.
- Place in greased and lined oven trays bake for 12-15 minutes on 160 degrees C.
- Take out of the oven and allow cooling.
- Spread caramel on one of the circles and sandwich two pieces together. Roll edges on desiccated coconut.
Recipe by Taste South America at https://tastesouthamerica.com/alfajores-sweet-caramel-coconut-biscuits/
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