Food

Today I am going to prepare a simple but delicious dessert. I will make alfajores.

Ingredients
* 150g butter
* 3/4 cup sugar
* 2 egg yolks
* 1/2 eggwhite
* smidgen vanilla extract
* swig of rum or other alcohol like brandy
* 3/4 cup regular flour
* 1 level teaspoon baking soda
* 1 and 3/4 cupscornflour
* 1 jar dulce de leche
* shredded coconut

Now, let´s get the ball rolling
First, in this bowl, we mix the butter, egg yolks, egg white and sugar with thefork until fluffy.
Then, we add the rum and vanilla essence and stir in.

3) Use the sieve to add gradual amounts of the baking soda, flour and cornflour, mixing in wellwith the fork
4) The mixture may be quite crumbly at this stage, so get your hands dirty and press it all together, kneading well
5) Once it’s all in a big lump, wraptightly in glad wrap and place in the fridge for at least two hours. I left mine overnight
6) After two hours (or the next day), take the lump out of the fridge and let itwarm to room temperature for a few minutes before cutting into three sections
7) Preheat oven on 160 degrees
8) For each dough section: Sprinkle flour on rolling surface androll out the dough to about 1cm thick
9) Cut out circles with the cookie cutter and place each on the baking paper on the baking tray
10) Bake for about 10 minutes,keeping a close eyes on the biscuits – they must not turn golden!
11) Take biscuits out of the oven and cool on a rack
12) Once cooled, spread a layer of dulce de leche ontothe base of one biscuit, then sandwich to another one so thedulce oozes out the sides
13) Even the dulce out with a knife, then roll in the shredded coconut
Enjoy!