About the dish
Alfajores are sweets made of two round biscuits sandwiched with a thick layer of dulce de leche. In Argentina, Uruguay and Peru they are eaten with coffee or mate, bought for the road and brought back as gifts from trips. The most homely kind is alfajores de maicena, where plenty of cornflour makes the dough tender enough to melt in the mouth; the edges are rolled in desiccated coconut. Versions coated in milk, white or dark chocolate are also popular, sold at kiosks on every corner, and in Peru they are dusted with icing sugar and filled with manjar blanco. The name and similar biscuits have Spanish roots.
Main ingredients
- cornflour
- wheat flour
- butter
- sugar
- egg yolks
- dulce de leche
- desiccated coconut
Argentina: Besides homemade alfajores de maicena, factory-made chocolate-coated ones are hugely popular – Mar del Plata is especially famous for them.
Peru: In Peru they are filled with manjar blanco and dusted with icing sugar; the large, many-layered king kong comes from the north.
More: Wikipedia (en)
