Alfajores are a most incredible short bread kind of cookie sandwich with Dulce de Leche oozing from the center and coconut clinging to the sweet caramelized filling.  The cookie crumbles into buttery shards as you bite in and dulce de leche coats your tongue in velvety goodness.  Alfajores are attributed to Argentina and one of the first manufacturers was Jewish from the Alfajores Successo company.

I tasted my first cookie on a recent trip to Florida with my sister.  It was a girl’s trip and all we did was eat, shop, hang out at the pool, and talk, talk and talk.  The local morning coffee shop we passed on our morning constitution sold Alfajores individually wrapped.

I decided to research and make these wonderful cookies and true to my principles  I made my own Dulce de Leche, and made the dough with unsalted butter.  With a little tinkering and a bit of trial and error for the details lost in translation  this recipe is very workable and not hard to execute.  Give them a try.  I