Take your tastebuds on a delicious adventure with traditional Alfajores cookies from South America. This recipe puts a time-saving twist on the classic dessert with the help of a cookie mix! Two cookies are sandwiched with dulce de leche and sprinkled with powdered sugar for a sweet treat.
Alfajores (Dulce de Leche Sandwich Crème Cookies)
- Prep Time 1 hr 20 min
- Total 1 hr 20 min
- Servings 24
- Ingredients 7
Ingredients
- 1 pouch (17.5 oz) Betty Crocker™ Sugar Cookie Mix
- 1 cup coconut
- 1/2 cup pecan halves, toasted, finely chopped
- 1/3 cup butter or margarine, softened
- 1 egg
- 1 can (13.4 oz) dulce de leche (caramelized sweetened condensed milk)
- 2 tablespoons powdered sugar
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 375°F. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper.
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Step2In large bowl, stir cookie mix, 1/2 cup of the coconut, the pecans, butter and egg until stiff dough forms.
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Step3On floured surface, roll half of dough to 1/4-inch thickness. Cut with 2-inch round or fluted cookie cutter. Place 2 inches apart on cookie sheets. Repeat with remaining half of dough.
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Step4Bake 7 to 9 minutes or until set. Cool 2 minutes; remove from cookie sheets. Cool completely.
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Step5To make each sandwich cookie, spread about 2 teaspoons dulce de leche on bottom of 1 cookie. Top with second cookie, bottom side down; gently press cookies together so some of filling seeps out around edges. Roll edges in remaining 1/2 cup coconut. Place cookies on cooling rack.
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Step6Sprinkle tops of sandwich cookies with powdered sugar. Store between sheets of waxed paper in tightly covered container.
Nutrition
190
Calories
8g
Total Fat
3g
Protein
28g
Total Carbohydrate
19g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Sandwich Cookie
- Calories
- 190
- Calories from Fat
- 70
- Total Fat
- 8g
- 12%
- Saturated Fat
- 4g
- 19%
- Trans Fat
- 1g
- Cholesterol
- 15mg
- 5%
- Sodium
- 95mg
- 4%
- Potassium
- 35mg
- 1%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 28g
- 9%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 19g
- Protein
- 3g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 2%
- 2%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 4%
- 4%
- Iron
- 2%
- 2%
Exchanges:
1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 1/2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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