These Latin-inspired cookies, commonly referred to as alfajores, sandwich dulce de leche between two butter cookies. Double the butter cookie, double the delish!Get this butter cookie recipe along with many others after the jump.
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These Latin-inspired cookies, commonly referred to as alfajores, sandwich dulce de leche between two butter cookies. Double the butter cookie, double the delish!
When it comes to baking cookies, butter makes all the difference. Filed under: Newspapers, In Sixty Seconds

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Last night, my boyfriend came home with a box of Entenmann's Valentine's Day-themed Holiday Butter Cookies. In recent years, as I found my footing as a baker, I've become scornful of mass-produced, packaged cookies, assuming that anything I could make in my own kitchen would be better than the stuff available at CVS, Shop Rite or Wawa. So I looked at this pink and white box of heart-shaped cookies sitting on the dining room table with a raised eyebrow. Filed under: Ingredients, Holidays, Bakeries

By now, with all of our Christmas cookies recipes - Gingersnaps (two ways!), Cranberry, Orange & Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies and Chocolate Peppermint Drops - your cookie plate is going to look very appealing when you put it out with a nice variety for Santa on Christmas Eve. But Christmas just isn't quite right unless you get to spend some time decorating cookies. Not only is it a great creative outlet, but you get to eat the results.
Rather than opt for the traditional gingerbread men with royal icing, especially in light of the fact that I made gingery cookies last week, I opted to make some of my favorite Vanilla Cutout Cookies. These cookies are soft, but not cake-like, and are very easy to make. They use both butter and buttermilk in dough, both of which add a richness to the cookie, and vanilla extract with a touch of almond to keep the flavor bright. As always, I recommend using a very high quality vanilla extract or something even more vanilla-y, such as vanilla bean crush or vanilla paste to boost the vanilla flavor.
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