Fresh Argentine dulce de leche medialunas dusted with powdered sugar, on the tray they were baked in, in Richmond, VA

Línea Rellena

Dulce de Leche

$24.00

Next pickup Sat 3 Oct

Size

Available to order

Dulce de leche is not caramel sauce and not toffee. It is milk and sugar cooked down slowly until it turns the colour of a penny and thickens enough to hold its shape on a spoon, and it is the single most Argentine thing you can put inside a pastry.

The medialunas are filled after they are baked and glazed, not before. Filling a laminated pastry before it goes in the oven steams it from the inside; filling it afterwards keeps the outside crisp and the syrup glaze intact.

These are sweeter than the plain ones, so one or two is usually plenty per person. If you are ordering for people who have never had a medialuna, the caja mixta puts these next to the plain ones in the same box. The pastry itself is explained in what is a medialuna, and how ordering works covers collection.

Next pickup

Saturday 3 October

Servings
a dozen serves about 4 people
Pickup
Saturday 9:30am–12:00pm
Orders close
Thursday 11:59pm
Allergens
Eggs, dairy (milk and butter), wheat and gluten, tree nuts (hazelnuts and pistachios) and soy. The weekly rotating special sometimes contains peanuts.

Filled with dulce de leche, the Argentine caramel made by cooking milk and sugar slowly for hours. This is the one most people order first, and then order again.

Keeping them
Sealed at room temperature, and eat them the day they are baked if you can — the filled ones are happiest on day one. Do not refrigerate.
Warming them up
Oven at 325°F for three minutes. Warm rather than hot: dulce de leche gets very hot very quickly.
Sweet or savoury
Sweet

Allergens

Eggs, dairy (milk and butter), wheat and gluten, tree nuts (hazelnuts and pistachios) and soy. The weekly rotating special sometimes contains peanuts.

Questions about this one

What is dulce de leche?

A caramel made by cooking milk and sugar together slowly for several hours until it thickens and darkens. It is sweeter and milkier than a butter caramel, and it is the classic Argentine pastry filling.

Are they filled before or after baking?

After. The medialuna is baked and glazed first, then filled, which is what keeps the pastry crisp instead of steaming it from the inside.

Are they very sweet?

Sweeter than the plain ones, yes. One or two per person is usually enough, and they go better with black coffee than with anything else sweet.

Can I have a mix of flavours in one order?

Yes — order the caja mixta, which puts the plain and the filled ones in the same box, or add more than one product to your order.

How long do they keep?

Best on the day they are baked. Sealed at room temperature they are still good the next morning; they do not improve in a fridge.

Baked to order, one batch a week

Saturday 3 October

Also being baked

Order for this batch

Saturday 3 October

Thursday 11:59pm

$24.00

Next pickup Sat 3 Oct