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Homemade Alfajores

Ingredient Amount Calories
Butter without salt 100g 717kcal
Wheat flour, white, all-purpose, enriched, bleached 75g 273kcal
Cornstarch 75g 286kcal
Sugars, powdered 40g 156kcal

Recipe Instructions:

100 grams (about 7 tablespoons) butter, soft
40 grams confectioners' sugar
75 grams cornstarch
75 grams all-purpose flour
4 tablespoons dulce de leche

Cream the soft butter together with the powdered sugar until the mixture is fluffy. If your butter is very soft already, this should take no more than a couple of minutes with a handheld mixer.
Whisk together the cornstarch and the all-purpose flour, then combine it with the butter and sugar using a large wooden spoon until the dough starts coming together into a ball.
Preheat the oven to 350° F (175° C) and line a sheet pan with parchment paper. Place the disk of dough on a floured surface, dust it with some extra flour, then carefully roll the dough out to a thickness of no more than 5 millimeters (about 1/8-inch thick).
Using a 5-centimeter (2-inch) round cookie cutter, cut out 24 cookies (you will have to re-roll the dough a couple of times to do this), and place the dough circles on the prepared sheet pan, leaving about 1 centimeter (about 1/2 inch) of space between the cookies.
Place the sheet pan in the fridge for approximately 10 minutes, so that the cookies can firm up.
Bake them for 10 to 12 minutes, or until they’re just starting to color around the edges. Lift the cookies onto a cooling rack and leave them to cool.
Once they’re at room temperature, top half of the cookies with dulce de leche, using about 1 teaspoon on each one. Then sandwich those cookies with the plain ones. As you press the cookies together, carefully rotate the two cookies in opposite directions, which will help spread the dulce de leche all the way to the edge of the cookies.

Nutrition Facts
Portion Size 290 g/ml
Amount Per Portion 1431
Calories
% Daily Value *
Total Fat 82g 105%
Saturated Fat 81g 406%
Sodium 20mg 1%
Total Carbohydrate 166g 60%
Dietary Fiber 2.7g 10%
Sugar 39g
Protein 58g 117%
Vitamin D 0mcg 0%
Calcium 37mg 3%
Iron 3.9mg 22%
Potassium 107mg 2%
* The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a serving of food contribute to a daily diet. 2000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.
Vitamins
Nutrient Amount DV
Vitamin A 684 mcg 76%
Thiamin [B1] 0.594 mg 49%
Riboflavin [B2] 0.412 mg 32%
Niacin [B3] 4.47 mg 28%
Pantothenic acid [B5] 0.439 mg 9%
Vitamin B6 0.036 mg 2%
Cobalamin [B12] 0.17 mcg 0%
Floate [B9] 221.25 mcg 0%
Vitamin C 0 mg 0%
Vitamin D 0 mcg 0%
Vitamin E 2.365 mg 16%
Vitamin K 7.225 mcg 6%
Betaine 52.725 mg 0%
Choline 26.9 mg 5%
Carbohydrates
Nutrient Amount DV
Total carbohydrate 165.7 g 60%
Sugars 39.4 g 79%
Dietary fiber 2.7 g 10%
Carbohydrate 0.1 g 0%
Net carbs 126.3g
Aminoacids
Nutrient Amount DV
Alanine 0.292 g 0%
Arginine 0.353 g 0%
Aspartic acid 0.405 g 0%
Cysteine 0.177 g 0%
Glutamic acid 2.827 g 0%
Glycine 0.303 g 0%
Histidine 0.202 g 0%
Isoleucine 0.326 g 0%
Leucine 0.643 g 0%
Lysine 0.243 g 0%
Methionine 0.163 g 0%
Phenylalanine 0.441 g 0%
Proline 0.999 g 0%
Serine 0.442 g 0%
Threonine 0.256 g 0%
Tryptophan 0.108 g 0%
Tyrosine 0.283 g 0%
Valine 0.379 g 0%
Minerals
Nutrient Amount DV
Calcium 37.15 mg 3%
Copper 0.17 mg 19%
Fluoride 2.8 mcg 0%
Iron 3.88 mg 22%
Magnesium 20.75 mg 5%
Manganese 0.56 mg 24%
Phosphorus 114.75 mg 9%
Potassium 107.3 mg 2%
Selenium 28.77 mcg 52%
Sodium 20.05 mg 1%
Zinc 0.58 mg 5%
Other
Nutrient Amount DV
Water 31.427 g 0%
Ash 0.514 g 0%