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What are Alfajores???

Alfajores (pronounced "Al-fah-HOR-es") are scrumptious traditional Argentinean pastries made of two shortbread-like cookies joined with dulce de leche. Alfajores are a daily treat in South America and introducing this unique flavor to my new home is very exciting!

Buenos Aires Alfajores is a dream come true. We simply love making alfajores. A spoon full of dulce de leche combined with two cookies makes us jump for joy!

Our alfajores are handmade in small batches with lots of love in a commercial kitchen in Oakland, California ~home.  We are committed to using only all-natural, high quality ingredients with no artificial flavors or preservatives: Guittard dark chocolate, Clover cage-free eggs and butter without rBST...We are proud to be part of Oakland's local food movement and are committed to supporting local vendors.

At Buenos Aires Alfajores we have been in business for a year and a half.  In that time we have grown exponentially. We sell retail online and in many local coffee shops, and we are expanding into more stores each month.  As we grow, we are committed to our high quality products and a chocolate enrober will help us to keep those beautiful alfajores rolling!

What is a Chocolate Enrober?

A chocolate enrober is a machine that coats cookies with chocolate. Each alfajor goes through a curtain of melted chocolate and dips its belly in a pool of chocolate...Yum!

Bakery Equipment Services makes the Enrober and Cooling Tunnel practically in our backyard, right in Richmond, Ca. 

How you can help us...

Our business is growing and we need to keep up with demand.  Alfajores are very labor intensive. We now hand-coat each alfajor. You should see the chocolate on our faces after a few hours of dipping alfajores in chocolate and using a reverse vacuum to blow off the excess! We end up wasting lots of chocolate --a tragedy.

We can't wait to share our wonderful, high quality, home grown, delicious alfajores with the whole world.  However, we can't meet demand with our current manual processes and we can't buy the fancy equipment from profits when our production is so low!  We need your help!!!

If are fortunate enough to exceed our goal, extra funds would go towards perfecting packaging for sales in stores and buying other equipment.

 Which Other Ways You Can Help?

We are grateful to you for any contribution.  If you can’t contribute monetarily, there are other ways to help:

• Cheering us on: an "Hola, como estas?" would be great!

• Letting other people know about our campaign.

• Asking your local coffee shop to carry Buenos Aires Alfajores.

Rewards

There are many rewards to chose from. Don't forget, you can pick more than one!

Add $25 to your order and get a special edition Chocolate Buenos Aires Alfajores T-Shirt! Two versions from which to choose. (Both are short sleeve with the image on the front only.)

At the close of the campaign we will send a survey to make sure you get exactly what you want.

Things to know for alfajor rewards:

• For the boxes of alfajores you can choose: a) 12 large cookies or 20 mini and b) mix of flavors or specify one. 

• We have traditional and gluten free traditional, but only in the larger size.  

• The Mini Aflajores only come dipped in meringue or chocolate. 

Thank you!

Buenos Aires Alfajores has been community supported, in every way, from the beginning. We couldn't keep going without the help and generosity of so many people, both close by and far afield. Thank you for being a part of the Buenos Aires Alfajores community!

Many thanks to Luis Costadone for the photos & Margo Dean for the video and Fabian Reynard for the T-shirt and mug designs!

Thank you for reading our campaign.  We are eternally grateful!