Chocolate alfajores

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Chocolate alfajores is a delicious dish built around egg, honey and all purpose flour. It has a homemade, generous feel that makes it easy to imagine as the star of the meal, with bright citrus freshness and a lively citrus touch.

Preparation time: 40 min

Ingredients

• Butter – 150g
• Sugar – 70g
• Egg – 1
• Honey – 25g
• All purpose flour – 175g
• Cornstarch – 80g
• Unsweetened Cocoa – 30g
• Baking Powder – 1 tsp
• Baking Powder – 1 tsp
• Dulce de leche – 400g
• Milk Chocolate – 500g
• Butter – 100g
• Orange – Zest of 1

Method

For the cookies cream the butter with the sugar for a few minutes. Then add the egg and honey and mix well. Add flour, cornstarch, cocoa, baking soda and baking powder and mix until you get a dough. Wrap in plastic wrap and chill for at least half an hour or overnight.
2
Line two baking sheets with parchment paper, preheat oven to 200 degrees Celsius.
3
Divide dough into two parts, put one part back in the fridge before using. Roll out second part to about 2 millimeters and cut out round cookies with 5-6 centimeters in diameter. This can be done with a cookie cutter or glass. You should get 30 cookies in total or even more, I get about 40. Bake one baking sheet at the time for about 8-10min. Let cookies cool.
4
For the filling look for two cookies of the same size and place about one teaspoon of dulce de leche onto the bottom one before sandwiching together.
5
Chop semi-sweet chocolate and melt with butter and orange zest on low heat. Dunk each sandwich cookie into the chocolate and let cool off on parchment paper before serving.