Peruvian cookies

If you haven’t tried Peruvian alfajores before you’re in for a treat!! These light and crispy cornstarch cookies with a homemade manjar blanco, aka dulce de leche filling, make a delightful treat that is perfect for the holidays or any time of the year.

These dulce de leche sandwich cookies AKA alfajores are the perfect bite sized sandwich cookie for all your holiday cookie boxes. Made with soft shortbread cookies and held together with homemade dulce de leche, everyone will love these!

The Peruvian classic alfajor consists of two buttery, melt-in-the-mouth cookies filled with creamy, sweet pastry filling and topped with sprinkled powdered sugar.

These are Peruvian alfajores. Manjar blanco that is spiked with cinnamon is sandwiched in between two light shortbread cookies. The sides are rolled in powdered sugar.

Dulce de Leche Thumbprint Cookies are one of the most popular cookies in Argentina. They are sweet and delicious and fall apart in your mouth when you bite into them. And the best, they are very easy and quick to make!

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From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite... Alfajores are shortbread sandwich cookies that are held together with a spoonful of dulce de l...

Cocadas are a type of cookie or coconut maroon, made with grated fresh coconut, egg whites, condensed milk, sugar and vanilla. Coconut maroons are naturally gluten-free. And they are so easy to make that they have been adopted by many Latin American countries under different names. Most Caribbean countries refer to them as "coquitos". However, there are some variations in ingredients and techniques between the recipes of one country and another. #peruvianrecipes #cocadasrecipe

When I was in Peru, I went to a bakery and was blown away by the alfajores. They melted in your mouth. So good! The one I had was rolled in powdered sugar and the manjar blanco had a subtle cinnamon flavor to it, which is typical. These are Peruvian alfajores. Manjar blanco that is spiked with cinnamon and cloves is sandwiched in between two light shortbread-like cookies. The sides are rolled in powdered sugar.