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Alfajores - Traditional and Authentic Venezuelan Recipe

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Popular throughout Latin America and Spain, alfajores are shortbread-like sandwich cookies filled with dulce de leche, and rolled in grated coconut. What are alfajores? The alfajor (or alajú) is one of the foremost ambassadors of South American and Spanish pastries. It is also found in the Philippines and in the South of France. This delicious confection consists of two or more layers of cookies, joined by a filling generally made of fruit or milk jam, honey, chocolate mousse, or even dried fruit or nut pastes, such as almonds, walnuts or hazelnuts. However, coconut and dulce de leche are the most