Monday, April 16, 2012

Dulce de Leche Cookies

Pillsbury
www.pillsbury.com


1 cup butter, softened
2/3 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 egg yolks
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons orange juice and 1 teaspoon grated orange peel OR a combination of: 2 1/2 tablespoons water plus ½ teaspoon imitation rum extract.
extra sugar for dipping
1 can 12 oz Dulce de Leche Nestle
1 cup flaked coconut, chopped a little bit to make the flakes smaller.

Beat the butter and 2/3 cup of sugar with an electric mixer until smooth and creamy. Add egg yolks, vanilla, imitation rum mixture or the orange juice with the orange zest and beat until blended. In a bowl mix the flour, baking powder and salt. Stir the dry ingredients into the butter mixture until well-blended.
Heat the oven to 350F.
Shape the dough into balls made with 1 tablespoon of dough each. Place them in an ungreased cookie sheet; place them 2 inches apart. Dip bottom of small glass into the extra sugar; press on cookies to make a flat cookie. Bake 10-11 minutes or just until the edges begin to brown; remove to cooling rack. Cool completely.

Spread Dulce de Leche in a cookie and place the other cookie on top. Gently squeeze until filling oozes out a little around the side. Roll edges of cookies in coconut.

Makes 24 sanwich cookies.

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