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Argentina, Americas · Medialunas de Manteca

Dulce de Leche Medialuna Crookies

Medialunas filled with dulce de leche and capped with chocolate chip cookie dough, baked until the cookie crisps over a buttery pastry: a viral café treat.

ServingsServes 2
Total cooking time27 min
DifficultyEasy

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 180 °C. In a bowl, beat the soft butter and brown sugar until creamy, mix in the milk, vanilla and salt, then add the flour and stir just until no dry flour remains. Stir in the chocolate to finish the cookie dough.

    Add in this stepSoft butter 30 gBrown sugar 30 gMilk 2 tspVanilla extract ½ tspSalt 1 pinchPlain (all-purpose) flour 50 gChocolate chips or chopped dark chocolate 40 g

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  2. Slice each medialuna open horizontally (it needn't go all the way through), spread the inside with dulce de leche and close it again.

    Add in this stepMedialunas or small croissants (day-old is fine) 4Dulce de leche 2 tbsp

  3. Divide the cookie dough into as many portions as you have medialunas, flatten each in your palm and drape it thinly over the top of a medialuna. Set them on 1 baking tray(s) lined with baking paper.

  4. Bake for , until the cookie edges are golden and the centre still looks slightly soft. If the pastry darkens too fast, lay a sheet of foil over the top.

  5. Cool on the tray for so the cookie sets, then dust with icing sugar through a sieve.

    Add in this stepIcing sugar 1 tsp

Cook's tip

Day-old medialunas work better than fresh ones because they're less soft; shop-bought croissants work too. Keep the cookie layer about 5 mm thick: too thick and the middle stays raw.

Cooking it at camp

Make the cookie dough at home and bring it in the cooler. Line a lidded cast-iron pot with baking paper, set it over gentle coals and put a few coals on the lid to bake it like an oven (about 15 minutes; check often).