Andalusian alfajores recipe
Ingredients to make Andalusian Alfajores:
- 210 grams of honey
- 50 grams of Hazelnuts
- 75 grams of Almonds
- 100 grams of Breadcrumbs
- 1 dessert spoon of flour
- 1 dessert spoon of ground cinnamon
- 2 grams of ground cloves
- 10 grams of sesame seeds
- 50 grams of icing sugar
- For the syrup:
- 60 grams of sugar
- 60 grams of water
How to make Andalusian Alfajores:
- We gather all the ingredients to prepare the Andalusian alfajores.
- Prepare syrup with water and sugar. Bring to a boil for 10 minutes and let cool.
- In a blender, grind the almonds and hazelnuts until obtaining fine flour.
- Trick: If you use almonds with skin, it is necessary to peel them before. To do this you only have to scald them in boiling water and pinch the skin.
- To continue with this recipe for Spanish sweets, we heat the honey in a pot until it boils.
- Add the rest of the ingredients to the honey: the spices, the flour, the ground nuts, the breadcrumbs, the sesame and half the syrup. Mix everything well until a sticky paste is formed.
- Tip: If you don’t have ground cloves, you can crush a clove in the mortar.
- Place the dough on baking paper and shape the almond and hazelnut alfajores with our hands. Unlike Argentine alfajores, these Andalusian sweets are cylindrical in shape.
- Coat the homemade almond alfajores with the remaining syrup and icing sugar.
- If we want an original presentation for these Andalusian alfajores, we can wrap them with colored cellophane paper.
