LA CASA alfajores specializes in handcrafted “alfajores” filled with homemade “dulce de leche”. Our mission is to spoil New Zealand with one of Argentina’s best kept secrets! Alfajores are sweet treats that have been present since colonial times in South America.
We produce ‘chocolate & maizena alfajores’ using an authentic Argentine recipe and the ingredients except for the chocolate sourced locally.
ALFAJORES DE CHOCOLATE are two delicate cocoa biscuits (cake-like cookies) sandwiched together by a layer of dulce de leche, a creamy caramel confection made from milk and sugar and hand dipped entirely in dark or white chocolate.
ALFAJORES DE MAIZENA corn starch is used together with flour to give the biscuits a lighter and fluffier texture than a typical shortbread cookie. Two of these biscuits are sandwiched with dulce de leche filling and rolled in coconut. That lightness still captures the cookie's buttery flavour, and together with dulce de leche, they will melt in your mouth.
