Simply delicious and perfect for baking: Queen Máxima's recipe for her favorite cookies

    Queen Máxima of the Netherlands loves Argentine specialties because she grew up in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires. Your favorite recipe areAlfajores with Dulce de Leche. Alfajores are delicious double biscuits filled with dulce de leche, a type of caramel cream, and then rolled in shredded coconut. Sharing the recipe on the Dutch royal family's Facebook and Instagram pages, Maxima explained, "I grew up with alfajores, they are my favorite cookies!"

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    You can bake these Christmas cookies at home with this recipe:

    Ingredients

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    • 300 g corn starch
    • 200 g Flour
    • 1 TL Natron
    • 2 level teaspoons of baking powder
    • Pulp of a vanilla bean
    • 150g sugar
    • 200 g butter (room temperature)
    • 4 egg yolks
    • Zest of an organic lemon
    • 1 TL Cognac
    • Dulce de Leche (prepared or homemade from condensed milk and sugar)
    • Desiccated coconut

    preparation

    1. Open the oven160 degrees top/bottom heatpreheat.
    2. Mix all dry ingredients (cornstarch, flour, baking soda, baking powder, vanilla pulp, sugar) in a mixing bowl, then add the softened butter.
    3. Add the egg yolk and brandy, knead the dough by hand and shape it into a ball. (If the dough is too crumbly, just add two spoonfuls of lemon juice!)Let rest for an hour.
    4. Now roll out the dough to about 5 mm thick and cut out circles with a diameter of 4 cm using a glass or cookie cutter.
    5. Place the dough circles 2 cm apart on a baking tray lined with baking paper and bake for 10 - 12 minutes. The cookies should stay nice and light so that they don't get too dry and break.
    6. Let the cookies cool. Then stick two biscuits together with a layer of dulce de leche to form double biscuits. Finally, roll the edges of the cookies in coconut flakes.

    More cookie recipes from around the world

    Alfajores are a traditional delicacy in many South American countries, especially Argentina. Alfajores are also consumed in Peru, Uruguay, Chile and Spain. From France we will be baking so-called palmiers at Christmas, Christmas cookies that consist of only three ingredients. The recipe for comes from Finlandthat melt in your mouth. And we got the recipe for sweet Linzer Stangen from our neighbors in Austria.

    Please never store in a biscuit tin

    The problem: Cookies' worst enemy isLuft.Because when starchy foods (such as chips or cookies) are exposed to air, moisture is automatically removed from them and they dry out. However, classic tin cans for cookies cannot be sealed 100 percent airtight, which means that the Christmas cookies will dry out.

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