Recipe origin: Argentina
Ingredients
- 2½ cups cornstarch
- 1⅔ cups flour ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ¾ cup sugar
- 1 cup (2 sticks) butter or margarine
- 3 egg yolks
- 1 Tablespoon vanilla extract
- Grated lemon peel
Ingredients
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Sift the cornstarch with the flour, baking soda and baking powder in a bowl.
- Beat margarine and sugar, and add the egg yolks one at a time. Mix well.
- Add dry ingredients a little at a time.
- Add vanilla and lemon peel. Mix to form a stiff, elastic dough.
- Stretch until the dough is about ½-inch thick over surface covered with flour.
- Cut into circles using the rim of a drinking glass or a round cookie cutter and put the circles on an ungreased cookie sheet.
- Bake for about 15 minutes. Let cool.
- Spread some dulce de leche on one cookie and sandwich with another cookie, and repeat with the rest of the cookies.
