Alfajor is a traditional arab cookie, which the Spaniards brought to the Americas! YUM!
they are extremely easy to do, but, oh, so sweet and sinful!
 Ale loves them, and so do I. I had never tried to make them, though, but, on Friday I looked up a recipe on line and then bought all the ingredients on Saturday.
Now, no one makes Alfajores like my friend Katya“s... hers are like a piece of heaven that practically melts in your mouth! So thin and delicate! Mine were thick, not at all like hers...but, the flavor was right! So, now I need to practice some more until I can make them thin and luscious!

Thought I“d share the recipe!

ALFAJORES 
 Ingredients :
 1 ¾  cups sifted flour 
¼ cup cornstarch
 ¾ cup butter or margerine 
 4 tablespoons pulverized sugar
 
1 tablespoon cold water
Manjar blanco

   

Instructions:
   
Put the butter, flour, cornstarch, water,  and pulverized sugar in a bowl. Mix with a fork or hist. Finish working the dough with your hands, until the dough is smooth.

Roll with a rolling pin on a floured surface. Cut circles with a cookie cutter.

Put cookies on a greased cookie sheet and bake in pre-heated oven [350° F (175° C) ] for 12-15 minutes. 

Take out of the oven and cool them.

To make the alfajores, take a cookie, spread manjarblanco over one side and, cover with another cookie. Sprinkle with pulverized sugar. 

 
MANJARBLANCO:
Ingredients :
     1 can of condensed milk (397 g - 14 oz)


     Instructions:
   
Place the can (closed) of condensed mik in a pot and cover it with water. Boil for 2 hours if in a conventional pot, or 45 minutes in a pressure cooker.
Cool the can completely before opening.