Little Peruvian alfajores recipe | Gourmet Traveller

Ingredients

• 525 gm plain flour (3½ cups)
• 2 tbsp icing sugar, sieved, plus extra for dusting
• 250 gm lard (see note)
• Desiccated coconut, to serve
• 110 gm caster sugar (1/2 cup)
• 10 gm butter, diced
• Scraped seeds of 1 vanilla bean
• 1/8 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 500 ml milk (2 cups)
• 1 tbsp brown sugar
• 1 tsp liquid glucose