Queen Máxima celebrates birthday by teaching us how to bake her favorite cookie

Biscuit ingredients:

- 300 gr cornstarch

- 200 gr flour

- 200 gr butter (at room temperature)

- 150 gr sugar

- 4 egg yolks

- 1 teaspoon of soda (sodium bicarbonate)

- 2 level teaspoons of baking powder

- The marrow from a small vanilla pod or a pinch of vanilla powder

- The grated zest of 1 lemon 1 teaspoon of cognac

Ingredients filling:

- Dulce de leche (ready-made or homemade with condensed milk and sugar)

- Grated coconut

“Preheat the oven to 160 degrees. Mix all dry ingredients with the softened butter in a bowl.”

Then add the egg yolks and brandy!

Knead it into a firm dough! (Sidenote: Maxima’s royal wedding ring is the baking accessory we wish we had).

Form a ball and let it rest for about an hour. If it seems like the dough is not sticking together, then add 2 spoons of lemon juice!

Roll out the dough into a rag from 5 mm to 7 mm and cut out circles of dough (with a glass) of about 4 cm in diameter.

Then place the rounds on a baking tray lined with baking paper, about 2 cm apart. Bake the cookies at 160 degrees for 10-12 minutes. The biscuits should discolour a little, not too much otherwise they will become too dry and break.

When the cookies are ready, take them out of the oven and let them cool. Always stick two cookies together with a layer of dulce de leche. Spread the dulce de leche well to the edge.

Finally, roll those edges through the grated coconut.

“The Alfajores de dulce de leche are ready: enjoy!” the caption exclaims at the end. Be sure to tag us @HOLAUSA on Instagram if you make these!