Carmen Tarragona’s fascination with gourmet Argentine cookie sandwiches began when she ordered 150 small boxes of four miniature, intricately decorated alfajores for her 12-year-old godson’s First ...

Before I met José, I had never heard of alfajores. José, whose parents hail from Cordoba, Argentina, may have been raised in Connecticut, but he has an Argentine soul. He can even do the tango. He ...

Of all the recipes my Peruvian mother prepared for my twin sister, Carla, and me over the years, alfajores (dulce de leche sandwich cookies) have always stood out the most in mind. My mom passed away ...

There was a time when I was obsessed with dulce de leche-filled pastries. The single reason that mania ended is because I moved away from the bakery named after the ingredient. If you haven’t had the ...

Alfajores, the famous Argentine sandwich cookies, found new fans in Dallas during Central Market's "Passport Argentina" promotion, which ended Tuesday. Traditionally, alfajores are made using two ...

During the holiday season, it was hard to appreciate the wonder of the single cookie: the kind of cookie that comes in a pretty wrapper and when laid bare stares back quietly with the promise to ...

THE HIGHLIGHTS OF my trip to the awe-inspiring, windswept Torres del Paine National Park in Patagonia: soaring granite peaks, creeping ice-blue glaciers, enormous turquoise lakes and the freshly baked ...

Walnuts add richness to the crumbly cookies in this mashup of two classic Latin American cookies, alfajores and polvorones. (Silvia Razgova/For The Times; prop styling by Leah Choi) Walnuts add ...

Meet the alfajor, the French macaron of South America. The original alfajor – an ancient Spanish-Arabic pastry born in the Andalusian city of Medina Sidonia in the southernmost region of Spain – bears ...