Mark's Lemon and Chocolate Alfajores

Join the brilliant Mark Lutton (GBBO, series 11) live from Liverpool who will teach you the skills for his Lemon and Chocolate Alfajores. These very soft, delicate and buttery biscuits get their unique texture from a high ratio of cornflour in the dough! Trying to pin-point the exact origin of Alfajores has become a bit of an obsession for Mark and if he was being totally accurate he would say these originate from Spain. However, as with lots of dishes, the original version is very different from the delicious Alfajores you find all across South America. Argentina, Chile, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia all have their own versions of these morish little biscuits (sometimes covered in chocolate, sandwiched with multiple layers of biscuits and sometimes including nuts or fruit). 

We’ll start off the class with an introductory welcome and some background from Mark's time on TV, before we ask you to…