Little Peruvian alfajores recipe

Name: Little Peruvian alfajores recipe
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

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Alfajores are served in various forms throughout Latin America. What they have in common is their delicious, melt-in-the-mouth texture.

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