We enjoyed our baking session on last Saturday in our Spanish Club at the institute.

Alfajores de maicena are very typical in Argentina and so delicious!! They are delicate corn flour biscuits filled with “dulce de leche” – sort of a caramel sauce and finished with coconut. We used caramel sauce on Saturday but you could use Nutella as well.

They are easy and fun to make! Have a look…

Ingredientes para Alfajores de maicena (click on the image to see the full recipe in Spanish)

Ingredients

• 250 Gramos de mantequilla (butter or margarine)
• 150 Gramos de Azúcar (sugar)
• 3 Unidades de Yemas de huevo (egg yolks)
• 200 Gramos de Harina 0000 (flour)
• 300 Gramos de Maicena (corn flour)
• 2 Cucharadita de Polvo de hornear (baking powder)
• 1 cucharadita de esencia de vainilla (vainilla essence)
• 1 Puñado de Coco rallado (coconut)
•  Dulce de Leche (caramel sauce or nutella!)

Step by step – paso a paso

Alfajorcitos de maicena

Watch a video…