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Butter Cookies with Dulce de Leche
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    • Ingredients

    Serves:

      • 3/4 stick (6 tablespoons) unsalted butter softenened
      • 3/4 to 1 cup all-purpose flour
      • 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
      • 1/8 teaspoon salt
      • 1/4 cup granulated sugar
      • 2 large egg yolks
      • 1 tablespoon Pisco or regular brandy
      • 1/4 teaspoon vanilla
      • 1/4 cup dulce de leche
      • Confectioners sugar for dusting

    Directions

    Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 350°F. Butter a large baking sheet.

    Whisk together cornstarch 3/4 cup flour baking powder and salt in a small bowl.

    Beat together butter and sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy then beat in egg yolks Pisco and vanilla. Stir in flour mixture until combined adding 1 to 2 tablespoons flour if dough is sticky. (Dough should be soft.)

    Form dough into a disk and roll out into an 11-inch round (1/8 inch thick) on a lightly floured surface with a lightly floured rolling pin. Cut out 32 rounds with cutter (reroll scraps if necessary) and transfer to sheet arranging rounds 1/2 inch apart.

    Bake until firm and pale golden around edges 12 to 15 minutes. Transfer to a rack and cool 10 minutes.

    Sandwich cookies with about 1/2 teaspoon dulce de leche. Dust with confectioners sugar.

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    alinap45

    This recipe is excellent, My kids loved it specially when I use arequipe Alpina with it instead of regular dulce de leche.

    April 06 2010 at 12:25 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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