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Alfajores (Dulce de Leche Sandwich Crème Cookies)

Prize-Winning Recipe 2007! Take a delicious taste adventure with a traditional cookie of South America. Two cookies made with a time-saving cookie mix are sandwiched with dulce de leche and sprinkled with powdered sugar.

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Prep Time 1 hr 20 min
Total Time 1 hr 20 min
Servings 24

Ingredients

1: pouch (1 lb 1.5 oz) Betty Crocker® sugar cookie mix

1: cup coconut

1/2: cup pecan halves, toasted, finely chopped

1/3: cup butter or margarine, softened

1: egg

1: can (13.4 oz) dulce de leche (caramelized sweetened condensed milk)

2: tablespoons powdered sugar

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Directions

1 Heat oven to 375°F. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper.
2 In large bowl, stir cookie mix, 1/2 cup of the coconut, the pecans, butter and egg until stiff dough forms.
3 On floured surface, roll half of dough to 1/4-inch thickness. Cut with 2-inch round or fluted cookie cutter. Place 2 inches apart on cookie sheets. Repeat with remaining half of dough.
4 Bake 7 to 9 minutes or until set. Cool 2 minutes; remove from cookie sheets. Cool completely.
5 To make each sandwich cookie, spread about 2 teaspoons dulce de leche on bottom of 1 cookie. Top with second cookie, bottom side down; gently press cookies together so some of filling seeps out around edges. Roll edges in remaining 1/2 cup coconut. Place cookies on cooling rack.
6 Sprinkle tops of sandwich cookies with powdered sugar. Store between sheets of waxed paper in tightly covered container.

EXPERT TIPS

Expert Tips

This recipe was one of fifteen winners in the 2007 Mix It Up with Betty! Cookie Mix Recipe Contest. More than $10,000 was awarded!

Look for cans of dulce de leche in the Hispanic-foods section at your supermarket. Dulce de leche is similar to sweetened condensed milk, but it has been caramelized and is much thicker.

Dulce [DOOL-say] is Spanish for and generally refers to an intensely sweet confection made with sugar and cream. Leche [LAY-chay] is the Spanish word for “milk.”

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Nutrition Information

NUTRITION INFORMATION PER SERVING

Serving Size: 1 Sandwich Cookie

Calories: 190
Calories from Fat: 70),

% Daily Value

Total Fat: 8g; 8%
(Saturated Fat 4g, 4% Trans Fat 1g 1% ),
Cholesterol: 15mg; 15%;
Sodium: 95mg; 95%;
Total Carbohydrate: 28g; 28%
(Dietary Fiber 0g 0% Sugars 19g 19% ),
Protein: 3g; 3%

% Daily Value*:

Vitamin A: 2%;
Vitamin C: 0%;
Calcium: 4%;
Iron: 2%;

Exchanges:

1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 1/2 Fat;

Carbohydrate Choices:

*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

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Posted 2/10/2013 4:20:24 PM REPORT ABUSE BellaSky said:

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So delicious! It took me back to my childhood when I lived in Lima, Peru and could buy these pretty much anywhere. Great Recipe!

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Posted 10/17/2011 12:22:29 PM REPORT ABUSE nettie96 said:

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just wondering if these could be frozen unfilled and filled just before party?

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Posted 1/6/2010 2:19:00 PM REPORT ABUSE angelicamartin said:

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The cookies by themselves are great, but when you put the Dulce de Leche on them and the coconut all I can say after that is WOW!! I did half of them in sandwiches and the other half just a single cookie with dulce de leche on top then I lightly pressed them face down in the coconut. Both ways were delicious.

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