alfajores

Baking away for a happy thanksgiving celebration with good friends. I'll be contributing my usual empanadas, baked cheesey potatoes and this year I'm adding alfajores. They're basically two cookies sandwiched with dulce de leche in the middle and toasted coconut on the border, yummylicious!

3 cups corn starch
2½ cups flour
4 tsp baking powder
4 tbsp butter
3 tbsp crisco
6 eggs
1 cup sugar
lemon zest
sweet coconut flakes -toasted in oven
dulce de leche

Beat eggs and sugar, add lemon zest. Mix dry ingredients, incorporate butter and crisco working until well mixed. 
Combine flour and egg mixtures to form a workable dough, add flour if necessary. Roll out to about ¼" thickness. Cut circles with cookie cutter. Bake for about 15 minutes or until golden at 350 degrees in preheated oven.
Let the cookies cool a bit. Spread dulce de leche on one cookie, take another and press together to make a little sandwich, spread a little dulce de leche on the sides, roll it on the toasted coconut. Makes about 35 alfajores.