The pepas are crispy cookies with a heart in the center of some sweet, such as sweet potatoes, quince, fruits, chocolate or dulce de leche, such as the pepas that you will learn to do in this recipe. Also, like many other foods, dulce de leche was born as an error. It is commented that it seems that the cook of Rosas, a Argentine hero who participated in the War of Independence, forgot the milk that was warming up in a pot and, when he burned, this was caramelized forming a delicious sweet. Currently, it is one of the icons of Argentina and you can enjoy alone, to tablespoons or in preparations such as this. Ask yourself reading in free recipes and learn how to do dulce de leche or cookies of dulce de leche in simple steps and with few ingredients . Lets cook!
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| Ingredients to make dulce de leche pepas: |
| 1 egg 170 grams of flour 0000 1 tablespoon of baking powder 1 pinch of salt 50 grams of butter 50 grams of sugar (¼ cup) 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence 100 grams of dulce de leche milk Optional to decorate :: 20 grams of pastry chocolate |
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Ingredients to make dulce de leche pepas:
1. To start with the recipe for dulce de leche pepas, first cream the ointment with sugar. This consists of mixing, with the help of a spatula, both ingredients until they are completely integrated and the color changes to a more whitish. Aromatizes this mixture with the essence of vanilla.
Trick: You can add other aromas, such as orange or lemon zest, which deliciously combine with the dulce de leche.
2. Add the egg at room temperature. If you keep them by refrigerator, you can remove them a few minutes before starting preparing your dulce de leche pepas, you can also break in a bowl and heat in the microwave at minimum power for about 30 seconds. Integrates with the help of a hand whipper.
3. Mix the dry ingredients of this preparation: the flour with the baking powder and the pinch of salt. Add them to the butter mixture, sifting them previously with the help of a sieve or fine strainer. Integrate with a spatula or cornet without kneading too much.
Trick: It is not convenient to use your hands too much, on the contrary, you will transmit heat to the butter and will be difficult to maneuver. Do not worry if this happens, you will only need to cool it for a few minutes, covered.
4. When you have your dough ready, take it to a clean and shape with it a roll of diameter that you want your pepas to be.
5. Short 1st finger cookies and provide the characteristic shape with the help of your fingers.
6. Here you can see the shape of the pepas. Have them in a previously greased grip and cook them in the preheated oven at 180 ºC for about 5 minutes.
7. Meanwhile, the dulce de leche display inside a sleeve to make it easier to handle it. If you wish, you can accommodate it inside a glass so as not to dirty your hands trying to fill it.
8. Past 5 minutes of pre-coction of your dulce de leche pepas, retir them and highlight the little hole with the help of the tip of a kneading or packaging stick, as you observe in the image.
9. Fill the Argentine pepas with the dulce de leche and crush the tips that have been formed so that they do not burn in the oven. Cook them for 3-5 more minutes, taking care that the dulce de leche does not begin to boil or spread through all your pepas.
10. When it is out of the oven, decorate with melted chocolate threads. To do this, use the microwave at a minimum power and remove every 40 seconds, you can also do it on a pot in the water bath.
11. The delicious dulce de leche pepas are ready! Tell us in the comments your opinion and share with us a photograph of the final result.
