ALFAJORES OF FRUITS MARMALADE

The alfajores from the province of Córdoba are famous and a real legend. The come from old recipes of the Carmelite sisters, and many o the most known are made with sweets of the region’s fruits.

ALFAJORES OF FRUITS MARMALADE

Ingredientes

for 6 portions

500 g.

FLOUR 0000

12 g.

BAKING POWDER

150 g.

SUGAR

150 g.

CREAM BUTTER

50 g.

HONEY

3 units

EGGS

Topping

200 g.

ICING SUGAR

30 cc.

TEPID WATER

Filling

300 g.

PEACH MARMALADE

Procedimiento

Place the lour mixed with the baking powder in a sieve. Save. Whip butter with sugar and honey till getting a cream, adding eggs one at a time. Sieve on the mix the dry ingredients and make a bun without kneading. Refrigerate for 30 minutes in the fridge. Then stretch the mass with a width of a half centimeter, and cut in caps of 4 to 5 centimeters diameter. Take to an oven a 180ºC. for 8 minutes on and floured and buttered plate. Let it cool down in a grid. Join two caps with any sweet, be of fruits or for milk. Cover with glaze of icing sugar and tepid water.

tips*

These alfajores can be coated with chocolate

El dato: ALFAJORES

The custom of enjoying the alfajores is deep-rooted in different provinces. It is said that the ancient dames prepared them filled, always with homemade sweets, following old formulas inherited in convents.

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