Today we are landing on U after T for thai cuisine , For U I chose Uruguay which is officially called eastern republic of Uruguay a southeastern region in south america. Uruguayan culture is strongly influenced by Europe the language spoken here is Spanish and some speak a mix of Italian and Spanish which is called Cocoliche. Meat is a fundamental part in this country and dish prepared with dulce de leche our very famous here. So for today I chose two addictive dishes you will sure like it 100% as it contains the delicious dulce de leche.Alfajores are short bread cookies prepared which is sandwiched between in between dulce de leche. Panqueques de dulce de leche is a sinful dish and a perfect breakfast or snack to enjoy, By sinful I really mean it . It is sent me to heaven I, My daughter and H we totally enjoy the stacked crepes a lot .. Again desserts are following , I really couldn’t stop my self doing a dessert again today , feeling fulfilled and happy about both dishes I made for U specially. Will meet you all tomorrow with next letter till then enjoy the heavenly recipes ..
Recipe Source : Joy of baking
Alfajores
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Cookies
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15 mins
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15 mins
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All-purpose Flour – 2 cup
Butter – 2 sticks (at room temperature)
Sugar – 1/2 cup
Vanilla extract – few drops
Dulce de leche – 1 cup
Method
- In a bowl whisk the butter till smooth and creamy.
- Add sugar and vanilla extract to it and Mix them well.
- Now add flour and combine them till it forms a soft dough.
- Preheat the oven to 350 F . On a cookie tray line a parchment paper.
- In a floured surface roll the dough.Cut them to circles or any shape you like.
- Place the cut cookies on the parchment paper and bake them at 350F for 8-10 mins.
- Once done cool them on a wire rack while they are still sitting on the cookie tray.
- Take a shortbread cookie and spread some dulce de leche and sandwich them with another cookie.
- Can be stored for few days in the refrigerator in an airtight container.
Panqueques de dulce de leche
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Cookies
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15 mins
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15 mins
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Ingredients
All purpose Flour – 2 cups Heavy cream – 1/2 cup
Milk – 1 – 11/2 cups
Vanilla extract – few drops
Sugar – 4 tbsp
Dulce de leche – 1/4 cup
For Garnish
Chocolate syrup
Icing sugar
Strawberries
Method
- Mix all the ingredients in a bowl excluding dulce.
- Mix them well and form a lup free batter.
- Heat a skillet and pour one ladle of batter in it. You can make it thin if your like.
- Once you see it is light brown from one side flip and cook the other side.
- Once done , do the same for the rest of the batter.
- Once all the crepes are cooked .
- Take a crepes and spread dulce de leche in one side.
- Sandwich it with other crepes and repeat the same till you finish stacking all the crepes.You can also spread the dulce de leche and roll each crepe serving is as you wish.
- Dust it with icing sugar and drizzle some chocolate sauce.
- Garnish it with fresh fruit, I used strawberries.
