Argentine · serves 8 · about 30 minutes
Argentina's no-bake national treasure: chocolate cookies softened in coffee, layered with dulce de leche and cream cheese. Invented for an ad campaign in 1982; adopted by every birthday since.
Ingredients
- 2 packs Iberia Maria Cookies 7 oz
- 14 oz dulce de leche
- 8 oz cream cheese, room temperature
- 1.5 cups strong coffee (or chocolate milk, the kids' table version)
- 2 tbsp cocoa powder, to finish
Method
- Beat the dulce de leche and cream cheese until completely smooth — the frosting and the glue.
- Dip each cookie briefly in coffee — count to two, no longer — and lay a layer in the dish.
- Spread a generous coat of the dulce-cream. Repeat: dipped cookies, cream, four or five stories high.
- Finish with cream on top and dust with cocoa.
- Refrigerate at least 4 hours — overnight is the real recipe. The cookies become cake; Argentina becomes happy.