Havanna’s product for the 150 years of Mar del Plate became the most coveted product at the beginning of 2024. Making it in your kitchen is easier than it seems.
The alfajor with sea salt that Havanna launched this summerin commemoration of the 150 years of Mar del Plata, became a rage and It is one of the most coveted products on the market. But although it seems complicated to be able to replicate the product in your kitchen, The recipe is simpler than one imagines.
The candy was sold in January and February only on the Atlantic Coast, which increased the curiosity of sweet lovers to try it. Its particularity, without a doubt, is the touch of sea salt that breaks with the flavor of the traditional alfajores that we know.
Although the product is already sold in other parts of the country, including Buenos Aires, you can save several pesos if you make it at home and without losing the original flavor. It is important that you follow the recipe to the letter, which was shared on TikTok by the user @anto.arboscelli.
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Recipe: how to make alfajor with Havanna sea salt at home
Ingredients
- 50 grams of butter
- 50 grams of sugar
- 50 grams of honey
- 1 egg
- 250 grams of flour
- 50 grams of cornstarch
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 tablespoons of bitter cocoa
- 1 tablespoon orange liqueur
- 1 Teaspoon vanilla extract
- Chocolate to melt (necessary amount)
- Sea salt
- 120 grams of dulce de leche
- 120 grams of white chocolate
- 100 grams of cream
Step by step preparation
- Mix the butter with the sugar, egg and honey in a bowl.
- Add the vanilla essence, orange liqueur and bitter cocoa powder and incorporate everything. Continue with the mixture.
- Add the previously sifted flour and cornstarch and mix until you have a soft but firm dough. This step is important to give consistency to the alfajor.
- Stretch the dough so that it is a couple of millimeters high and cut round caps with the size we want to give to the alfajor.
- The most important step: Add very little sea salt on top (do not overdo it) and bake in the oven at 170 degrees for 8 minutes.
- Prepare a ganache with the dulce de leche, the previously melted white chocolate and the cream.
- Take two small caps that we prepared in the oven and make an outer circle with dulce de leche pastry and, in the center, place the dulce de leche ganache.
- Melt chocolate (the higher the percentage of cocoa, the better) and coat the alfajores.
Source: Ambito
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