Alfajores

Yield: 48 Servings

Cookie Base
Butter
6oz (170g)
Sugar
8oz (226g)
Eggs
1 each
Frutta Prima Vanilla Bean Marinade (069001)

1oz (28g)
Cornstarch
7.5oz (212g)
All-Purpose Flour

7oz (198g)
Baking Powder

0.1oz (3g)

Cream the butter and sugar, then beat in eggs and vanilla bean marinade. Add remaining sifted ingredients and blend. Knead until smooth. Let rest for 15 minutes. Roll out thin. Cut into 2 inch rounds. Bake at 300ºF until cookies spring back slightly puffed, but have no color.
Alfajores-(2)
Cherimoya Caramel
Sugar

16.9oz (480g)
Evaporated Milk

16.9oz (480g)
Frutta Prima Original Tahitian Vanilla Beans (596102)

1 each
Heavy Cream

5.3oz (200g)
Pastry Ideale Glucose Syrup (505092)

14.1oz (400g)
Butter

1oz (30g)
Cherimoya Purée

3.5oz (100g)


Combine milk, sugar, cream, and vanilla. Bring to a boil. Add glucose and purée, and cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until 230ºF/110ºC. Add the butter and continue stirring until mixture is 239ºF/115ºC. Remove from heat, cool to room temperature and use as desired.


Assembly
Inti 65% Tika Bittersweet Couverture Coins (686065), tempered
As Needed

Pipe caramel onto a cookie a sandwich cookies together. Create tempered chocolate décor and cut to fit on top of cookies. Place a dot of tempered chocolate onto cookie and adhere chocolate décor.