Alfajores and Cookies with Jam

This is a very versatile recipe, as with this recipe you can make a wide variety of cookies, from alfajores with nuts, chocolate, or cookies filled with jam.
Ingredients
30
Servings
  • 100 grams butter, softened
  • 120 grams flour, common
  • 160 grams cornstarch
  • 1/4 teaspoons baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon yeast, chemical (royal)
  • 75 grams sugar
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 1/2 teaspoons vanilla essence
  • 1/2 teaspoons lime zest
  • dulce de leche, as needed, for the filling
  • strawberry jams, as needed, for the filling
  • peach jam, as needed, for the filling
  • 100 grams walnuts, chopped, for decoration
  • 100 grams semisweet chocolate, melted in the microwave, for decoration
  • icing sugar, for decoration, as needed
Preparation
1h
0 mins
Low
  • Sift the flour, cornstarch, baking soda, and royal and set aside.
  • Preheat the oven to 180°C.
  • Prepare a tray with wax paper and a small ring to cut the cookies.
  • In the mixer, beat the butter with the sugar, add the egg yolks one by one and mix well.
  • Add the vanilla and lemon zest and mix everything perfectly.
  • Remove from the mixer and gradually add the flour mixture and integrate with your fingers until finishing the flour mixture. If necessary, add a little more flour until you have a smooth and soft dough.
  • Wrap in plastic wrap for 10 minutes in the refrigerator.
  • Place the dough on the table with a little flour to prevent sticking and roll out to about 1/2 cm thick and cut with small rings, a few can be cut from the center with a smaller ring so that the jam filling is visible when forming them.
  • Place on the tray not too close together.
  • Bake for 10 to 15 minutes or until lightly golden at the edges, remove and let cool.
  • Take a cookie and put the filling, dulce de leche or jam, take another cookie and place it on top of the dulce de leche filling, and those with a hole in the middle are the tops for the jams.
  • Some cookies with dulce de leche are carefully flattened, and around we place the nuts and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
  • The rest of the cookies with dulce de leche are dipped, with the help of a fork, in the melted chocolate and left to dry on wax paper.
  • The cookies with jam are sprinkled with powdered sugar or we make lines with melted chocolate as seen in the photo.

Nutritional Information

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