There was a time when I was obsessed with dulce de leche-filled pastries. The single reason that mania ended is because I moved away from the bakery named after the ingredient. If you haven’t had the ...

These traditional alfajores bring together buttery shortbread cookies and a rich dulce de leche center. Martha prepares the caramel filling by slowly cooking condensed milk until it develops a deep ...

Sandwich cookies are great. Two cookies plus filling, masquerading as a single treat? Sign me up. That was especially the case when I was younger and devoted to Oreos (or those times I visited my ...

Meet the alfajor, the French macaron of South America. The original alfajor – an ancient Spanish-Arabic pastry born in the Andalusian city of Medina Sidonia in the southernmost region of Spain – bears ...

Making and sharing homemade Christmas treats when the house fills up with guests is a big part of beloved Latino traditions such as Mexican posadas or Puerto Rican parrandas. Here are four traditional ...

We first met in a Buenos Aires coffee shop: a local Havanna chain on the corner of Santa Fe and Thames. He dressed for the occasion—swallowed up in metallic gold—and bore a distinguished 15-pesos ...

Like so many traditional recipes, alfajores are claimed by many cultures and countries including Argentina, Peru, Brazil and Chile (though many South American countries claim this cookie as their own) ...

Esta nueva combinación se posiciona como tendencia en alfajores, conectando directamente con el paladar local.

We start of by slowly heating sweetened milk until it starts to caramelize and thicken to become an ambrosian delight. Of course you can always cheat by using condensed milk to get similar results.

I ate alfajores daily when I was in Argentina, grabbing a packet of the foil-wrapped confection whenever I saw one: at cafes, markets, gas stations, the concession stand at the zoo. The sandwich ...