The alfajors name comes from the Arabic al-hasú, meaning filled or stuffed—brought to Spain by the Moors during the Andalusian period and carried to South America by Spanish colonizers in the sixteenth century. The original Spanish alfajor was a honey and nut confection quite different from what Argentina eventually developed. In the mid-nineteenth century, Argentine […]

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Casadinho means little married one in Portuguese—the name refers to the two cookies paired together, each one incomplete without the other. They are small cornstarch-based sandwich cookies, crisp and lightly sweet, filled with guava paste, dulce de leche, or chocolate. The cornstarch base gives them their characteristic sequilho texture—more crumbly and dissolving than a standard […]

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