Rick Browne’s Alfajores Cookies with Duce De Leche Filling

1/2 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
2 egg yolks
1 tsp. vanilla
2 tsp. lemon rind, grated
1 1/2 cup cornstarch
1/2 cup flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt

Prepare charcoal or gas barbecue for 350°F.

Cream butter; add sugar and beat until fluffy. Add egg and egg yolks, one at a time, beating well. Beat in vanilla and lemon rind. Sift together cornstarch, flour, baking powder and salt. Add to mixture and mix well.

Drop batter by small spoonfuls onto well buttered baking sheet. Bake in the barbecue for 15 minutes.

Remove immediately. Sandwich the cookies together with (dulce de leche) sweet milk dessert.

Makes 20 2-layer cookies

DIRECTIONS for Dulce De Leche
1 can sweetened condensed milk

Preheat charcoal or gas barbecue to 425°F.

Pour the sweetened condensed milk into an 8-inch round pie or square cake pan, and cover it with foil, then place the pan in a shallow pan filled with one inch of water and bake for one hour.

Allow the thick tan-brown syrup to cool, then spread between alfajores cookies and serve.