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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Spanish and Portuguese >> Spanish

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. In a stand mixer cream the butter, sugar, and shortening until fluffy. | 2. Add egg (at room temperature) and beat until mixture is smooth and creamy. Stir in the vanilla. | 3. Sift together the flour, cream of tartar, salt, and baking soda. Add to butter and sugar mixture, and mix on low speed until the flour is just incorporated. | 4. Add the ground nuts and mix 20 seconds more. | 5. Roll the dough into two cylinders, about 1.5 inches in diameter. Wrap well with saran wrap and chill until firm. | 6. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Slice off 1/8" -1/4" inch thick rounds of dough, and place on a cookie sheet. Brush cookies slightly with water (using damp pastry brush), and sprinkle tops of cookies with sugar. | 7. Bake for 8-10 minutes, watching closely, until cookies start to brown slightly. Remove from oven and cool cookies completely on a rack. | 8. Spread dulce de leche on a the bottom of a cookie and sandwich another cookie to the first, with the sugared sides of the cookies facing out. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
butter	1/2	cup		684.0	31.428	21.372	57.6
shortening	1/4	cup		453.05	0.0	0.0	51.25
brown sugar	1	cup		836.0	215.798	0.264	0.0
egg	1			71.5	0.36	6.28	4.755
vanilla	1	teaspoon		12.095999999999998	0.5313	0.0025	0.0025
flour	2	cups		1156.56	253.2108	18.802	4.4872
cream tartar	1/2	teaspoon		3.87	0.9225	0.0	0.0
salt	1/2	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
pecan	1/3	cup	ground	95.4489	17.887999999999998	1.9644	2.0107
de leche				-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.