Fine Fixin’s: Alfajores

Well, it’s cookie time. The best time of the year. We tried out this Argentinian cookie recipe from Saveur the other day and were very impressed with the results. These things are addictive sugar cookie sandwiches with dulce de leche!

Alfajores

• 1 2/3 cups cornstarch
• 1 1/4 cups flour
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 10 tbsp. unsalted butter,
•    softened
• 1 tbsp. cognac or brandy
• 1/2 tsp. lemon zest
• 4 egg yolks
• Canned dulce de leche, for filling
•    cookies

Heat oven to 350°. In a bowl, sift together cornstarch, flour, and baking powder; set aside. In a mixer fitted with a paddle, beat together sugar and butter until fluffy. Add cognac and zest; beat. Add yolks one at a time; beat. Add dry ingredients; mix. Transfer dough to a floured surface, knead briefly; divide into 3 pieces. Working with 1 dough piece at a time, roll dough to 1/4″ thickness. Using a 2 1/2″ round cookie cutter, cut out cookies; transfer to parchment paper—lined baking sheets, spaced 1″ apart. Reroll scraps and repeat. Bake until golden, 12–15 minutes. Let cool. Flip half the cookies over; top each with 1 heaping tsp. dulce de leche. Top with remaining cookies.

Today I Love: Cookies & Sunshine

Oh hello there little Mexican bakery near our new apartment.  How sweet of you {pun intended} to offer us some delicious pastries on our way home from work.  Have you met two of our new houseplants, Cecil {after the great American filmmaker} and Zanzibar Jr. {he’s a Zanzibar Aloe}?  You’re all making our lives so much more enjoyable.

Yayza! ▲nni.

Things are just swinging along today!  Lots of happy happenings.  I keep offering cookies to all the kind people who are tweeting and posting about our current giveaway.  I better stop before I find myself in an overwhelming sea of cookie dough.  Although, that could be kinda fun… Like that scene in Patch Adams where the old lady swims in a pool of cooked noodles.  Only, instead of swimming, it would be more like laying on top of the gooey mess and slowly eating my way to the bottom.  Oh, you don’t think I could eat an entire kiddie pool of cookie dough?  Think again.

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