These popular shortbread-style cookies are sandwiched around sweet and silky dulce de leche. Innovative, award-winning baker Bryan Ford is the author of cookbooks Pan y Dulce and New World Sourdough ...

I ate alfajores daily when I was in Argentina, grabbing a packet of the foil-wrapped confection whenever I saw one: at cafes, markets, gas stations, the concession stand at the zoo. The sandwich ...

Ligia Rossi, who grew up in Costa Rica, is a fan of alfajores, soft and melt-in-your-mouth sandwich cookies filled with dense, creamy, caramel-y dulce de leche. These alfajores are tender thanks to ...

Alfajores are synonymous with Argentina – the biggest producer and consumer – where they are as central to the national culinary identity as steak and Malbec. Chocolatier Maria Romero's eyes gleamed ...

There was a time when I was obsessed with dulce de leche-filled pastries. The single reason that mania ended is because I moved away from the bakery named after the ingredient. If you haven’t had the ...

We start of by slowly heating sweetened milk until it starts to caramelize and thicken to become an ambrosian delight. Of course you can always cheat by using condensed milk to get similar results.

This is Highly Recommend, a column dedicated to what people in the food industry are obsessed with eating, drinking, and buying right now. My dad is from Buenos Aires, but even though I spent much of ...

Of all the recipes my Peruvian mother prepared for my twin sister, Carla, and me over the years, alfajores (dulce de leche sandwich cookies) have always stood out the most in mind. My mom passed away ...

Argentina is known the world over for the quality of its steaks, and having spent four months studying Spanish there when I was fresh out of law school, I can attest that Argentinians are obsessed ...