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Alfajor Uruguayo
Uruguayan-style sandwich biscuits with dulce de leche and dark coating.
About Alfajor Uruguayo
These Uruguayan-style alfajores follow the Cocineros Argentinos recipe: pairs of sweet biscuits filled with dulce de leche and finished with a dark confectionery coating on top.
Butter, honey and vanilla flavour the biscuits, while dulce de leche supplies the rich caramel-milk sweetness. The dark coating adds a cocoa contrast to the filling.
The biscuits enclose a thick, smooth layer of dulce de leche. A coating covers the upper surface, leaving the sandwich form visible rather than enclosing the entire alfajor in chocolate.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Egg, Milk, Wheat (gluten).
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Alfajor Uruguayo
Cocineros Argentinos’ Uruguayan dulce-de-leche alfajores.
- EggBinder
- ButterCooking medium
- SugarSweetener
- MilkLiquid
- Corn starchBaseIngredient page not linked
- Baking powderBinder
- HoneySweetener
- Wheat flour 0000Base
- Vanilla essenceAromaticIngredient page not linked
- Dulce de lecheFilling
- Dark confectionery coatingToppingIngredient page not linked
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Egg: Egg
- Butter: Milk
- Sugar: No positive allergen conclusion recorded; absence is not verified
- Milk: Milk
- Corn starch: No positive allergen conclusion recorded; absence is not verified. Ingredient page link pending verification or catalogue review
- Baking powder: No positive allergen conclusion recorded; absence is not verified. Exact commercial formula unspecified.
- Honey: No positive allergen conclusion recorded; absence is not verified
- Wheat flour 0000: Wheat (gluten)
- Vanilla essence: No positive allergen conclusion recorded; absence is not verified. Exact flavouring formula unspecified; vanilla essence/flavouring is not established as vanilla extract, so no ingredient link assigned.
- Dulce de leche: Milk
- Dark confectionery coating: No positive allergen conclusion recorded; absence is not verified. Source names baño de repostería negro without supplier formula; not equated with pure dark chocolate.
Recipe-specific unresolved details
- Dark coating, baking powder and vanilla essence formulas remain product-specific.
- Dulce de leche and coating occur in the preparation rather than the source’s top ingredient list; both are included here.
Origins & food traditions
Uruguayan-style alfajores; selected published regional version.
Countries
- Uruguay
- UruguayCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Uruguayan Cuisine
- Uruguayan CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.