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These are tradition in my cOuntry with a little coffee , I personally love them they are really similar to shortbread cOokies....But hey they are frOm my cOuntry sO they are waay better....xD...

I really hope you enjoy them as my family and I dO....:)

Ingredients:

• 4 cups of AP flour
• 1 cup of vegetable shortening
• 1 cups of butter
• 2 cups of sugar 
• 1 egg
• 2 tbs of milk
• 2 tsp of vanilla
• 1 tsp of butter flavoring 
• Dash of salt

Ingredients

1. Cream together the fats and sugar until smooth and creamy.
2. Add egg, milk and flavorings
3. Add flour and mix until dough comes together.
4. Make balls of dough and flatten them in the baking sheet
5. press a little hole in the middle with your finger and put a little jam in there
6. Bake in preheted oven at 350F for 12-15, really when they star turning brown in the edges

ChOcolate alfajor

On friday I went to buy some tips I needed, and ended up buying a cOuple of magazines too, sorry I couldnt help it mom :3


But one of the magazines had the most cool recipe for chocolate alfajores, wich is a South American recipe, and a very yummi one. So heres the magazine and the recipe...:D

Cookies:

• 450g of AP flour
• 200 of powdered Sugar
• 300g Butter or Margarine
• 2 eggs
• Salt
• 1 tspVanilla Flavor 
• 1/2 a tso almond flovor
• Baking powder 1tsp
• Baking soda 1/2 tsp
•  30g Cocoa
• 2 tbsp of glucose

Procedure:

Cream the butter with the sugar and glucose until light and fluffy. Add egs one by one.

Make a well with all dry ingredients.

Add the flavorings

Crum the mixture of butter with the dry ingredients

Only integrate, as a pie dough.

Chill dough for at least an hour. 

roll ou and cu in circles

Bake a 300F for 18 to 20 min.

Let it cool.

Assembly

Dulce de Leche 

Ganache :

·                     1/2 c heavy cream

·                     8 oz  semi-sweet chocolate chunks

·                     2 T light corn syrup

·                     2 t of kahlúa

Drop in one cookie some dulce de leche and seal. Pour he chocolate ganache an let it cool (I did it overnight)

You can decorate with some candy melts. 

mOre whOle wheat bread....mmmm and one Of the mOst delicious cOokies

I bake some of these delicious breads in yesterday class. They are amazing, specially the cookies. 


Whole Wheat Bread with Parmesan


Ingredients:

• 3 cups of whole wheat bread
• 2 cups of bread flour
• .5oz of sugar
• .5oz fresh yeast
• 1.5 of butter
• 1.5 cups of water
• .25 oz of salt
• 1 oz of powder milk 
• Parmesan, red pepper flakes, etc for garnishing
• 1 beaten egg

Preparation:

1. Weight ingredients
2. Make a well with dry ingredients (flour, salt )
3. In the center dissolve sugar,  and yeast. 
4. Mix well and slowly start adding flour.
5. When there's no liquid add the butter and knead for about 10 min.
6. Let the dough rise for 20 min
7. Make balls  
8. Let them rest for 15 min.
9. Mafe figurations as a baguette.
10. Let them rise until they doble therir size and bake
11. Brush them with egg and add sesame seeds , if desired, also parmesan, herbs, etc on top
12. Bake at 360 F for 15 minutes

Whole Wheat Almond Cookies

• 3 cups of whole wheat flour
• 1 cup of cake flour
• 2 oz of ground almon
• 12.5 oz of granulated sugar (using half half with brown sugar would be amazing)
• 6.5 oz of butter
• 3 eggs
• .25oz of baking soda
• 1 tsp of concentrated almond scent

Preparation:

1. Cream sugar and butter until light and fluffy
2. Add dry ingredients and mix, just to integrate the dough 
3. Make alarge roll and cut, or make little balls
4. Decorate with oats, almonds, flaxseeds 
5. bake at 175C for 18 min.

Something cool about these  dough is that can be frozen for up to a year and the cookies last about 4 months.