Cookies & biscuits · Original adaptation
Dulce de Leche Alfajores Recipe
Tender cornstarch sandwich biscuits filled with dulce de leche and edged with toasted coconut.
Inspired by The Great Australian Bake Off, Season 6, Episode 2
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Dulce de Leche Alfajores
- Prep
- 35 min
- Bake
- 12 min
- Total
- 47 min
- Makes
- Eight sandwich biscuits
Ingredients
- 110 g plain flour
- 140 g cornstarch
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon fine salt
- 115 g unsalted butter, softened
- 70 g caster sugar
- 2 large egg yolks
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Finely grated zest of 1/2 lemon
- 220 g thick dulce de leche
- 35 g desiccated coconut, lightly toasted
Method
Whisk the flour, cornstarch, baking powder, and salt together in a bowl.
Beat the butter and sugar for 2 minutes until creamy but not airy. Beat in the yolks one at a time, then mix in the vanilla and lemon zest.
Fold in the dry ingredients just until a soft dough forms. Flatten it into a disc, wrap, and chill for 30 minutes.
Heat the oven to 175 C, or 155 C fan, and line two baking sheets. Roll the dough between sheets of baking paper to 6 mm thick, then cut 16 rounds with a 6 cm cutter.
Set the rounds 3 cm apart on the sheets and chill for 10 minutes. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, until set but still pale on top. Cool completely.
Pipe or spoon dulce de leche onto eight biscuits. Top with the remaining biscuits, press gently until the filling reaches the edges, and roll the exposed filling in toasted coconut.
Before you start
- This is an original Baking Show Guide home adaptation, not a contestant recipe or an official show recipe.
- Cornstarch gives the biscuits their short, delicate texture, so stop mixing as soon as the dough comes together.
- Use a thick dulce de leche so the assembled biscuits hold their shape.
From the episode
Biscuit Week
This adaptation starts from the episode's biscuits brief and reshapes it for ordinary home equipment and a manageable batch.
See every bake from the episode →Sources and recipe note
The sources below document the episode challenge. The quantities and method on this page are independently written by Baking Show Guide; they are not copied from a contestant or broadcaster recipe.
