Alfafores

These delicious crumbly biscuits are popular in South America where they are sandwiched together with dulce de leche.  They are very similar to a Viennese whirl in texture but have a more distinctive vanilla flavour.  Having made them I think I would have liked them even more sandwiched together with buttercream and jam.  I used Nestle Caramel and found it was a little soft and the biscuits had to be placed carefully and balanced so they wouldn't slip apart.

ALFAFORES

 

• 150g/5oz granulated sugar
• 250g/90z salted butter, softened
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla paste
• 250g/9oz plain flour
• 90g/3.24oz cornflour
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 250g/9oz dulce de leche or caramel
• icing sugar

Line two baking sheets with baking paper
Cream the butter and sugar till light and fluffy
Beat in the egg and vanilla
Sift the flour, cornflour and baking powder over the butter mixture and mix together to a soft dough
Using lightly floured hands divide the mixture into sixteen evenly sized pieces

Roll each piece into a ball then flatten out to a disc and place onto the baking trays

Place the trays into the oven to chill for ten minutes and preheat your oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4
Bake for about fifteen minutes until pale and golden then remove to a wire rack to cool.

When cool sandwich matched pairs together with a tablespoon of dulce de leche and dust with icing sugar to serve.

Enjoy.