Traditional Alfajores - Caramel Sandwich Cookies - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 cup cornstarch
1 3/4 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup butter
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 -2 tablespoon Pisco or 1 -2 tablespoon brandy
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup dulce de leche
1 cup iceing sugar

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Place the cornstarch, flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl and mix briefly.
Cut the butter into small pieces and add to the flour mixture, blending with your fingers until the mixture is smooth.
Add the powdered sugar, vanilla, and Pisco, and mix with your hands until the dough is homogeneous and smooth (add a little extra Pisco if dough is too crumbly to form a ball).
Let the dough rest in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
Roll out dough to 3/8\" thickness, and cut into 2 inch circles.
Place cookies on baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
.Bake cookies for 10-15 minutes, until they are barely golden brown. Let cookies cook 5 minutes, then transfer to rack to cool completely.
To fill the cookies, spread one cookie with dulce de leche and top with second cookie. Roll the edges in the coconut.
Store in an airtight container.