Alfajores
Seatango
I take again all the things I stated yesterday. Cookies are the very best. For it’s cookies—at the least, it’s at the moment’s cookie—that may remind us to calm the fuck down.
Let me clarify.
After a latest particularly busy day stuffed with errands, site visitors, and stress, I arrived at Seatango in Lake Metropolis to analyze their alfajor choices. I had seen photographs of the store on social media—their counter lined with numerous completely different flavors of cookie sandwiches, all dipped or adorned in numerous substances, from shredded coconut to Italian meringue to chocolate. After buying a range, I made my manner house, again by the site visitors, stress, and rain. I forgot concerning the cookies for an hour or two—I had work to atone for, and different “essential” duties on my self-imposed to-do record that I all the time make too lengthy when blinded by optimism and chance within the early half of the week.
When it got here time to eat the cookies—as a result of sure, consuming the cookies was truly on my to-do record (my job is enjoyable)—I assumed I might hustle by it. I’d take some photographs, jot down some tasting notes, and transfer alongside to the following job. The alfajores had one other thought.
The alfajores advised me to sit down down and shut up.
Seatango’s alfajores are thick. The cookie portion (often a brief dough made with sugar and cornstarch) traits in the direction of the dry facet, whereas the filling (on this case, dulce de leche) is gooey. This isn’t the type of caramel that melts away in your mouth. No, this shit places up a combat. One chew of this sandwich cookie turns your mouth right into a machine, a mechanism designed to chew, chew, chew. You may not converse; you may solely eat because the dulce de leche offers strategy to the crumbles of dough, and the 2 mix to create a mass even stronger than its two elements.
Your entire train is made higher with a cup of tea or espresso. The chew of the cookie and its filling turns into one thing else solely when it’s lower all the way down to measurement with a big sip of a heat drink. It melts away… and takes your stress and anxiousness with it. For a pair minutes, anyway.
We’re counting all the way down to 2025 by sharing a few of our favourite cookies on Slog on daily basis in December! As a result of life is tough, and sugar helps. Will issues get bizarre? Possibly! There might have been a small fireplace in the course of the first picture shoot! However hopefully, you may additionally uncover some new favourite treats to get pleasure from this season. Monitor our every day suggestions right here! 🍪
