Alfajores are unusual and delicious sandwich cookies, made of two shortbread-like cookies and a caramel dulce de leche filling. Alfajores make perfect gifts - they are easy to decorate, and keep well enough to send in the mail. Make them extra special with homemade dulce de leche.
Prep Time: 2 hours
Total Time: 2 hours
Ingredients:
- 1 batch maple or almond shortbread alfajores
- 1 1/2 cups dulce de leche
- 1 batch royal icing (see recipe link below)
- Food coloring
- Decorating bags and tips
Preparation:
- Prepare the cookies (almond shortbread alfajores, or maple shortbread alfajores) and the dulce de leche (or use purchased dulce de leche).
- Prepare the royal icing. (recipe here).
- Separate half of the cookies, and place them on a flat surface.
- Divide the icing into 3 bowls. Tint one bowl of icing red, one green, and leave the last bowl of icing white.
- Fill a piping bag with red icing, another with green, and one with white icing.
- Decorate the separated cookies as desired (leave other half of the cookies undecorated). Let icing harden enough to handle the cookies.
- Place a teaspoon or so of dulce de leche on the bottom of one of the undecorated cookies, then press a decorated cookie on top, to make a sandwich. Repeat with remaining cookies.
- Store cookies in an airtight container.
