Alfajor appears as a signature dish in 1 Argentina cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Alfajor · Buenos Aires
Two soft round biscuits sandwiched with dulce de leche and finished in chocolate or rolled in dessicated coconut. Argentina's most-eaten sweet; Havanna's chocolate-coated Marplatense version is the international export.
The alfajor traces to Andalusian Moorish baking and crossed to South America with Spanish colonisation; in Argentina the Spanish almond-paste filling was replaced with local dulce de leche. The Marplatense (Mar del Plata) version, dipped in chocolate, was invented by Havanna in 1948 in Mar del Plata and now sells about 300 million units a year nationally.
Where to eat in Buenos Aires:
- Havanna (flagship)
- Confiteria La Argentina
- Las Violetas
- Gran Cafe Tortoni