My mom doesn't understand english but she watches all your videos and she got sooo excited when she saw that you were doing alfajores. They are very popular in Peru 🇵🇪
i've made these without the coconut but i like the addition of coconut. my friend who is married to an argentinian man told me they loved them. going to make them and give them to my neighbor who is from south america. happy thanksgiving john and many happy returns of the day.
So interesting to see all the different renditions of Alfajores. My Peruvian mom rolls hers in powdered sugar. Every Christmas she has cookies spread all over her island, filing and rolling them in a long assembly line. Such amazing childhood memories, we would eat them at the pace that she made them. To me, alfajores equals Christmas.
Omg, as soon as I saw the notification I clicked so fast 😅 In Argentina, we called this "alfajores de maicena" but maicena or maizena is the brand of corn starch. Generally, they are made with only corn starch and a LOT of dulce de leche 😍
I used to live in Argentina 🇦🇷, and it’s been 20 years since I’ve had an Alfajor de maicena. I made your recipe and it was PERFECT. Soooo good!! Thanks John!!
I'm from Argentina and I suggested this recipe over a year ago, not sure if you saw it, lol! The recipe is perfect! I make them and sell them on weekends and they're so popular! I make them thicker, both the dough and the dulce de leche layer, just because here you can get different densities of dulce de leche. The one you have would be the one to spread, but there are two types more dense, made for pastries or baking. And also you can just put that dulce de leche you have in a pot stirring constantly for like 8-12 minutes and it would thicken up! Thanks for making these!!!
I feel the same!! My daughters boyfriend seen me using it the otherday then I put it at the back of the pantry. He went and grabbed it and at 2 scoops of it straight from the container!! 😳😲😬 🤦🤷 I was a bit shocked !! Lol
Hello! As an Argentinian I can say for sure you just honored one of our favourite candys! We use a dulce de leche special for bakery, wich is more stiff and allow us to put a scadalous amount in there. Thank you John!!
I’m Peruvian and thank you so much for making these! I was hoping one day you would do video. I can’t wait to try them I know they’ll come out delicious!!
I really appreciate the detail and specificity in the closed captions including sounds and prosody. Definitely helps to feel real effort and equal access to great content!
These are wildly popular in Chile! My husband is Chilean and I lived there for a bit. Dulce de leche there is called manjar, and it's in all the good desserts!
I’m very excited to see you tried Alfajores. I’m Peruvian (my parents were born there) and I was born in Argentina and I remember always making what we call “ Alfajores con Manjar Blanco ( dulce de leche) with my grandmother. I’m grateful to have learned her recipe and share the memories we had baking these delicious cookies and enjoying it with tea or milk. My grandmother passed away recently from Pulmonary Fibrosis and Covid. ❤️ Thank you for sharing this video and I always look forward to the next. 😄
I'm Brazilian and I was confused about that, the Argentinean alfajores I got in Buenos Aires were the ones that are softer and covered with chocolate, those are also easy to find here in Sao Paulo. This cookies he made we call "Casadinhos", two cornstarch cookies glued together with some sort of filling, and they are way more common here than the traditional Argentinean alfajores
Thank you, Gracias, etc. This has been my favorite cookie since I visited Patagonia and they were everywhere! But..I love them best with powder sugar and bite-size.
I’m from Bolivia and alfajores are very typical from my country too. We have lots of varieties of alfajores, but these ones are sooo good!! I’ll definitely try your recipe, every time I bake them my whole family and friends love them! Thnx a lot for all your recipes John, you rock!
I went to culinary school a couple of years ago with a woman from Chile. I remember her bringing these with her to class one day for us all to try. They were so yummy!
I’m making the dulce de leche now and watched a few videos as my daughters South American husbands family loves these, and smaller is better as they are sweet. Your recipe looks exactly what I want!
Peru is where I first had these which were made by some precious friends from the church there. These bring back some sweet, literal and emotional, memories for me. When I make them I simply sprinkle with powdered sugar as I had them there. ❤️
I’m from the Philippines 🇵🇭 and we also have this treat. We also call it Alfajores, the only difference is that the cookies are smaller and thicker in size. Like a perfect bite size.
Made these yesterday!!! I'm not able to eat them myself, but gave them away and got rave reviews! I made my own dulce de leche, and was so excited and had plenty of dulce de leche left, I'm baking more today
My husband is from Argentina and weve lived there on and off and we love these alfajores. Especially these ones are his favorites.. im going 4o surprise him with these! He will be so excited! (Luckily we find oue favorite Argentine dulce de leche in a local latin market in Philly!
I'm so glad you mentioned your aversion to cornflour...!!!! I've had this same problem for the last 51 years!!! Even with it in its bag in its box.... the feel of it when you have to open it...ughh...!!! I seriously thought I was the only one who suffered from this problem!!! Thank God I'm not bats...!!!
I worked on a project in Buenos Aires a few years ago. I came home with so many packets of alfajores. I never even thought of making them. But I can now 😀
Try mixing it with water then punch it. It goes from a liquid to a solid instantly. My daughter's when they were younger mixed it & it wouldn't splatter and did this odd liquid to solid thing. Idek
My neighbor brought me some for Christmas and I loved them so much that I was hoarding them😉 I’m going to try to make some. Thank you so much and appreciate you sharing this recipe.
OMG a peruvian style of "alfajores". I know alfajores are wide known among South America and many countries would claim they create it but in fact it belongs to all South America with its many styles of preparing it. I enjoy this video so much
I just made these cookies and they were delicious😋. I didn't have a cookie cutter so I used the small blender cover to get the Oreos round shape😀 and they came out perfect😋
This looks so good. I have seen peoplenfrom Mexico make a similar cookie, but. Made with flour. The cookie is thicker and sprinkeled with sugar before baking, filled the same way, but not rolled in anything.
Yay!! You mentioned my beautiful country Perú!!! Love alfajores and your recipe was amazing! As all of your recipes are! And of course I always enjoy your fantastic personality!!! You are just adorable!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I am from Argentina. We call them "alfajores de Maizena (it is the name of a cornstarch brand)". Thank you very much for doing this recipe. My family and I really love your channel!
I didn't catch how much vanilla to add. Thanks for the recipe! Learning how to make them for my son's wedding, he's marrying someone from Argentina and I thought it would be fun to have these delicious treats.
Originally from Al-Andalus, around XII-XIII centuries. As most words starting with “al” in Spanish, deriving from Arabic. So interesting to see how it then became such a popular traditional sweet in so many American countries! It makes me want to try all varieties, yum!! :-)
YUM!! I went to Buenos Aires when I was 17, and fell in love with these cookies there - tried to recreate when I got home, but no dice! I'm trying your recipe to see if they capture that memory from 37 years ago!! Thanks John for this jog down memory lane!! ❤️xoxo Amy
I'm from Chile and these delicious cookies are very popular there🇨🇱🩷😋 I have a couple of care packages to send from WV to CA and there will be goodie bags with these in'em. Happy holidays!
Peru 🇵🇪 in the house here but I live in the states. I’m going to surprise my family with these alfajores. Especially my mom since this is one of her favorites. I currently have my dulce de leche simmering. I couldn’t wait 3 hours so I put it in my insta pot to speed up the process hopefully. 😬
I'm from Venezuela and my grandma would make these a little thicker and bigger and they were such a special treat cause they just melt in your mouth. Loved seeing your recipe John! I haven't these in years, I'll probably have to make some of my own
Just tried the recipe and it almost worked... The dough spreads a lot once in the oven and if you're not a hardcore sweet tooth, half the sugar do pretty fine.
We also eat alfajores here in Uruguay and we looove dulce de leche! And actually for alfajores we use dulce de leche repostero, which is a bit thicker.
I had no idea you had a Mexican parent. Im from Perú and my husband Is Mexican. I love alfajores. I would love to see your mom cooking with you in one of your videos.
Being multi-cultural himself, John has been exposed to a wider variety of cuisine than your average home cook. He sprinkles in these regional favorites for folks like you who know what they are but perhaps have never made them, as well as for folks like me, who are not familiar but enjoy trying new things and trust that John is going to provide a fool-proof recipe.
My mom doesn't understand english but she watches all your videos and she got sooo excited when she saw that you were doing alfajores. They are very popular in Peru 🇵🇪
♥️🇵🇪 Does your mom makes alfajores with granulated sugar or powder sugar?
@@silviaaragon7501 she uses powder sugar. I might make some today 🤤
Can they be made a day ahead?
Holaaaa
@@jaquelinereyes46 yes,they stay so soft but be aware they are addicted.
I live in Ecuador now. I made these and my Ecuadorian friends loved them!
i've made these without the coconut but i like the addition of coconut. my friend who is married to an argentinian man told me they loved them. going to make them and give them to my neighbor who is from south america. happy thanksgiving john and many happy returns of the day.
So interesting to see all the different renditions of Alfajores. My Peruvian mom rolls hers in powdered sugar. Every Christmas she has cookies spread all over her island, filing and rolling them in a long assembly line. Such amazing childhood memories, we would eat them at the pace that she made them. To me, alfajores equals Christmas.
My boyfriend is from Uruguay and thanks to him I discovered alfajores! I absolutely love them
Wow.... Vivan los Alfajores! 🇦🇷
Omg, as soon as I saw the notification I clicked so fast 😅
In Argentina, we called this "alfajores de maicena" but maicena or maizena is the brand of corn starch. Generally, they are made with only corn starch and a LOT of dulce de leche 😍
I used to live in Argentina 🇦🇷, and it’s been 20 years since I’ve had an Alfajor de maicena. I made your recipe and it was PERFECT. Soooo good!! Thanks John!!
I'm from Argentina and I suggested this recipe over a year ago, not sure if you saw it, lol! The recipe is perfect! I make them and sell them on weekends and they're so popular! I make them thicker, both the dough and the dulce de leche layer, just because here you can get different densities of dulce de leche. The one you have would be the one to spread, but there are two types more dense, made for pastries or baking. And also you can just put that dulce de leche you have in a pot stirring constantly for like 8-12 minutes and it would thicken up! Thanks for making these!!!
John I totally understand you about the cornstarch feeling 🤣
I didnt understand it 🤔
I hate the feeling of corn starch 🤢
IKR i get goosebumps from touching cornstarch UGH 😖 but i love baking with it anyway 😩
I feel the same!! My daughters boyfriend seen me using it the otherday then I put it at the back of the pantry. He went and grabbed it and at 2 scoops of it straight from the container!! 😳😲😬 🤦🤷 I was a bit shocked !! Lol
@@jamifitz omg savage lol
Hello! As an Argentinian I can say for sure you just honored one of our favourite candys! We use a dulce de leche special for bakery, wich is more stiff and allow us to put a scadalous amount in there. Thank you John!!
Yep! Alfajores de maicena are great!
I’m Peruvian and thank you so much for making these! I was hoping one day you would do video. I can’t wait to try them I know they’ll come out delicious!!
🇵🇪🇵🇪
Thank god I’m not the only Peruvian here
Peruana aquí ❤️🙆
Samee
I'm peruvian too! I will have to try this recipe. I make alfajores all the time but my recipe is different. 😃❤
I'm chilean living in the states and my American friend loves them. I make them for him and his family every so often
I really appreciate the detail and specificity in the closed captions including sounds and prosody. Definitely helps to feel real effort and equal access to great content!
These are wildly popular in Chile! My husband is Chilean and I lived there for a bit. Dulce de leche there is called manjar, and it's in all the good desserts!
I’m very excited to see you tried Alfajores. I’m Peruvian (my parents were born there) and I was born in Argentina and I remember always making what we call “ Alfajores con Manjar Blanco ( dulce de leche) with my grandmother. I’m grateful to have learned her recipe and share the memories we had baking these delicious cookies and enjoying it with tea or milk. My grandmother passed away recently from Pulmonary Fibrosis and Covid. ❤️ Thank you for sharing this video and I always look forward to the next. 😄
I’m from Uruguay and alfajores were my childhood treat, thanks for making them
I love how calm and wholesome John is
Heyy! Here in El Salvador 🇸🇻 we just call them “Alfajores” and we usually dip them in sugar glass as well! Just for that extra sweetness ✨🍁
Im from argentina and i call them "alfajores de maicena", most of the time they're actually gluten free
I love the texture of corn starch. It reminds me of Play-Doh, but non-sticky.
Love this! I have a Spanish food truck project and have to make one recipe, and I chose Alfajores cookies! So excited to make this with my friends
These are called “alfajores de maicena” in Argentina :)
I'm Brazilian and I was confused about that, the Argentinean alfajores I got in Buenos Aires were the ones that are softer and covered with chocolate, those are also easy to find here in Sao Paulo. This cookies he made we call "Casadinhos", two cornstarch cookies glued together with some sort of filling, and they are way more common here than the traditional Argentinean alfajores
My grandma from Argentina has an incredible recipe for these :)
En realidad las maicenitas son diferentes jajaj (soy de Jujuy). Tendría que hacer alfajores marplatenses, ya que son los mas conocidos
@@adah5195 same!! They’re so good we always make them
I’m from Peru 🇵🇪 my grandma loves theses
I’m from Argentina and my mom makes these all the time. Delicious.
Thank you, Gracias, etc. This has been my favorite cookie since I visited Patagonia and they were everywhere! But..I love them best with powder sugar and bite-size.
I’m from Bolivia and alfajores are very typical from my country too. We have lots of varieties of alfajores, but these ones are sooo good!! I’ll definitely try your recipe, every time I bake them my whole family and friends love them! Thnx a lot for all your recipes John, you rock!
I love this! I grew up in 🇵🇪 Peru and always always had them! Nice job! We call Dulce de Leche, Manjar Blanco, but it’s the same thing. 😉
I went to culinary school a couple of years ago with a woman from Chile. I remember her bringing these with her to class one day for us all to try. They were so yummy!
I’m making the dulce de leche now and watched a few videos as my daughters South American husbands family loves these, and smaller is better as they are sweet. Your recipe looks exactly what I want!
Peru is where I first had these which were made by some precious friends from the church there. These bring back some sweet, literal and emotional, memories for me. When I make them I simply sprinkle with powdered sugar as I had them there. ❤️
I'm a simple argentinian
I see an argentina reference on a video's title, I click
I’m from the Philippines 🇵🇭 and we also have this treat. We also call it Alfajores, the only difference is that the cookies are smaller and thicker in size. Like a perfect bite size.
Yum! “Such a treat to have with coffee in the morning... in the afternoon... or at nighttime!” I felt that in my soul 😂
Love them without coconut but powdered sugar on top 😋
Hi John, I made these and my hubby eyes changed color when he tasted this treat. It was that good! Another winning cookie recipe from your playlist!
I'm Guatemalan, but we love alfjores with a little bit of powdered sugar on top. So good!
Dear Sir, I love your recipes and there's something sweeter than them, you. 💙 from South America
I live in Mexico and we LOOVEE them! Fav cookies ❤️ Me encantaaa
Made these yesterday!!! I'm not able to eat them myself, but gave them away and got rave reviews! I made my own dulce de leche, and was so excited and had plenty of dulce de leche left, I'm baking more today
I actually made some two days ago... They are truly delicious 😋. Greetings from this Chilean girl living in Germany!
Típica golosina y merienda de Argentina 🇦🇷 Traditional snack/treats or popular sandwich cookie from Argentina. I love them
My husband is from Argentina and weve lived there on and off and we love these alfajores. Especially these ones are his favorites.. im going 4o surprise him with these! He will be so excited! (Luckily we find oue favorite Argentine dulce de leche in a local latin market in Philly!
PERU!!!! YUUUUHHUUUU SIEMPRE PRESENTE EN LA COCINA 🇵🇪🇵🇪🇵🇪🇵🇪
?? No están hablando de Peru, sino de Argentina.
I made it today! It’s incredible delicious. The kitchen gets messy but it’s worthy it.
I'm so glad you mentioned your aversion to cornflour...!!!! I've had this same problem for the last 51 years!!! Even with it in its bag in its box.... the feel of it when you have to open it...ughh...!!! I seriously thought I was the only one who suffered from this problem!!! Thank God I'm not bats...!!!
I totally agree with the hate for the corn starch feeling. I also kinda love the feeling of flour.
Oh myy I'm from Argentina and I love alfajores de maicena. Can't believe you made this, they look amazing!!! Im such a fan of your videos, keep it up!
My ex is from Peru and I always loved these cookies! Although I always detected some star anise in them. I can’t wait to try these!!!
Me encanta dulce de leche. I enjoy watching your vídeos and it was so nice to hear that your mom is from Mexico. I am mexica too!
In Argentina we call these “Alfajores de maicena” and “maicenitas “ I’m so glad you have a recipe for them!
I worked on a project in Buenos Aires a few years ago. I came home with so many packets of alfajores. I never even thought of making them. But I can now 😀
Omg! I’m Argentinian, we called them Alfajores de maicena, they are delicious! Thank you for mentioning South america!
Lol!! I like the feel of corn starch!! It’s so smooth and silky!! And when you squeeze it, it makes a weird noise!! 😂🤪
Try mixing it with water then punch it. It goes from a liquid to a solid instantly. My daughter's when they were younger mixed it & it wouldn't splatter and did this odd liquid to solid thing. Idek
My neighbor brought me some for Christmas and I loved them so much that I was hoarding them😉 I’m going to try to make some. Thank you so much and appreciate you sharing this recipe.
Happy Thanksgiving John & family !! Hope you all enjoyed your day together !!
Tu me encantas John! You've reignited that baking spark and just in time for the holidays.
I went to Argentina last year and seeing this has reminded me of what I’ve been missing since then!! You have saved me 😍
Great! From Argentina, dulce de leche and theses alfajores are perfect....best regards!
Thanks to you, I made my first dolce de leche. It is so good I had to hide it from myself. Going to try these cookies now!!
OMG a peruvian style of "alfajores". I know alfajores are wide known among South America and many countries would claim they create it but in fact it belongs to all South America with its many styles of preparing it. I enjoy this video so much
PERO MIRA LO QUE SON ESOS ALFAJORES PAPA. QUE VIVA LA PATRIAAAAAAAA
I'm from Peru and we love Alfajores here!
I just made these cookies and they were delicious😋. I didn't have a cookie cutter so I used the small blender cover to get the Oreos round shape😀 and they came out perfect😋
You've got to be resourceful in the kitchen! Good to hear they came out well. Maybe I'll give them a try.
you're my favorite baker, thank you for the recipes
This looks so good. I have seen peoplenfrom Mexico make a similar cookie, but. Made with flour. The cookie is thicker and sprinkeled with sugar before baking, filled the same way, but not rolled in anything.
Yay!! You mentioned my beautiful country Perú!!! Love alfajores and your recipe was amazing! As all of your recipes are! And of course I always enjoy your fantastic personality!!! You are just adorable!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
OMG! I studied abroad in Argentina and miss these so much! My favorite are from Havana and covered in chocolate 😊
Those are alfajores, but not de Maizena/cornstarch
I Love this recipe and I am going to try it. From Guyana 🇬🇾.
I glad to see that you are showing us a great recipe from Argentina, thanks!!🥰🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷
ペルー出身の友達に貰って美味しかったので
作りたくて動画をみました！
アルファフォーレス 大好き😘
These are about to be my favorite cookies! I never heard of them till I was watching this video with Pedro Pascal & John favreau. Now I must try!!!
Hi! You are so right these are traditional in South America. I am from Perú, we rolled them in powder sugar. Deliciosos 😋
Happy Thanksgiving!!!
I love making these.
Cornstarch feels like it shouldn't be, but I love what it does in the kitchen
I am from Argentina. We call them "alfajores de Maizena (it is the name of a cornstarch brand)".
Thank you very much for doing this recipe.
My family and I really love your channel!
Yeeesss alfajorcitos de maicena!!!!! They are great!!!!! I'm from Argentina
Babe i just made your recipe and it went AMAZING
John, I love your videos!!! you make everyone smile. I have never found a baking youtube channel as good as yours!!!
I'm Dominican and I absolutely LOVE alfajores!🤩 They're so good!
Your recipes are amazing. I am making your cinnamon rolls and sweat potatoe casserole for thanksgiving
Thank u so much for sharing your recipes
I didn't catch how much vanilla to add. Thanks for the recipe! Learning how to make them for my son's wedding, he's marrying someone from Argentina and I thought it would be fun to have these delicious treats.
I can’t believe you are making alfajores😱 it’s a typical treat here in Chile 🇨🇱
Ik right!!! I was supper excited
I make them all the time for my mom. She's from Argentina. :)
his mom is mexican so maybe he ate them growing up? :)
Originally from Al-Andalus, around XII-XIII centuries. As most words starting with “al” in Spanish, deriving from Arabic. So interesting to see how it then became such a popular traditional sweet in so many American countries! It makes me want to try all varieties, yum!! :-)
I have never tried them before! I can't wait to make them this week. They look delicious!
Just made these and omg😫 they’re so good, my family loved them.
This looks AMAZING!!! your my favourite baker of all time! and i love ur recipes you re such an inspiration.
Yes indeed. I have tried many recipes and all worked.
YUM!! I went to Buenos Aires when I was 17, and fell in love with these cookies there - tried to recreate when I got home, but no dice! I'm trying your recipe to see if they capture that memory from 37 years ago!! Thanks John for this jog down memory lane!! ❤️xoxo Amy
I'm from Chile and these delicious cookies are very popular there🇨🇱🩷😋 I have a couple of care packages to send from WV to CA and there will be goodie bags with these in'em. Happy holidays!
Peru 🇵🇪 in the house here but I live in the states. I’m going to surprise my family with these alfajores. Especially my mom since this is one of her favorites. I currently have my dulce de leche simmering. I couldn’t wait 3 hours so I put it in my insta pot to speed up the process hopefully. 😬
Alfajor is classic treat in Chile! Thanks for share this recipe!
omg i’m peruvian and i LOVE alfajores... they are my favourite dessert!!! 🤤 tysm for the recipe, i’ll definitely try it
Omg I’m half Peruvian thank you so much for this.
I'm from Venezuela and my grandma would make these a little thicker and bigger and they were such a special treat cause they just melt in your mouth. Loved seeing your recipe John! I haven't these in years, I'll probably have to make some of my own
Just tried the recipe and it almost worked... The dough spreads a lot once in the oven and if you're not a hardcore sweet tooth, half the sugar do pretty fine.
We also eat alfajores here in Uruguay and we looove dulce de leche! And actually for alfajores we use dulce de leche repostero, which is a bit thicker.
Love this recipe Viva El Peru
I had no idea you had a Mexican parent. Im from Perú and my husband Is Mexican. I love alfajores. I would love to see your mom cooking with you in one of your videos.
yesss i’m from argentina and i love seeing people from other countries making them!!!! u should do more recipies with dulce de leche🇦🇷🇦🇷💗💗
Im Dominican & these are my favorite absolute cookies in the whole world
Happy thanks giving John!
Delicious. Here in Chile the caramelized condensed milk is called "Manjar de leche"..OMG childhood memories....
Alfajores de maicena, one of the best sweet treats on earth. Im not biased at all being arengtinian
Never thought my favorite childhood dessert would become trendy in a million years!
Being multi-cultural himself, John has been exposed to a wider variety of cuisine than your average home cook. He sprinkles in these regional favorites for folks like you who know what they are but perhaps have never made them, as well as for folks like me, who are not familiar but enjoy trying new things and trust that John is going to provide a fool-proof recipe.