Traditional Alfajores - Caramel Sandwich Cookies

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 24
• 1 cup cornstarch
• 1 3/4 cups flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup butter
• 1/2 cup powdered sugar
• 1 -2 tablespoon pisco or 1 -2 tablespoon brandy
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 cup dulce de leche
• 1 cup iceing sugar

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• 2 place the cornstarch, flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl and mix briefly.
• 3 cut the butter into small pieces and add to the flour mixture, blending with your fingers until the mixture is smooth.
• 4 add the powdered sugar, vanilla, and pisco, and mix with your hands until the dough is homogeneous and smooth (add a little extra pisco if dough is too crumbly to form a ball).
• 5 let the dough rest in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
• 6 roll out dough to 3/8" thickness, and cut into 2 inch circles.
• 7 place cookies on baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
• 8 .bake cookies for 10-15 minutes, until they are barely golden brown. let cookies cook 5 minutes, then transfer to rack to cool completely.
• 9 to fill the cookies, spread one cookie with dulce de leche and top with second cookie. roll the edges in the coconut.
• 10 store in an airtight container.