Alfajores are a common treat through much of South America, and the citizens of Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Chile all claim them as their own. It is an easy cookie to make, and you can enlist the help of the younger cooks in the house during the final assembly. These classic South American sandwich cookies contain a delicious caramel-like filling.
Cookies
Filling
* Here are three different methods for caramelizing the sweetened condensed milk.
Yield: about 3 dozen sandwich cookies - Cooking: 8 to 10 min
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