Alfajor de Nuez (Walnut Cookies With Dulce de Leche and Coconut)

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, Nov. 19, 2020: Ben Mims' Alfajor de Nuez, from a recipe by Arturo Enciso and Ana Belen Salatino of Gusto Bread, photographed for LA Times Food section's Holiday Cookies 2020 story on Thursday, Nov 19, 2020, at the Proplink Studios in Arts District Los Angeles. (Silvia Razgova / For the Times, food and prop styling / Leah Choi) ATTN: 653895-la-fo-holiday-cookies-2020
Walnuts add richness to the crumbly cookies in this mashup of two classic Latin American cookies, alfajores and polvorones. (Silvia Razgova/For The Times; prop styling by Leah Choi)

Walnuts add richness to the crumbly cookies in this mashup of two classic Latin American cookies, alfajores and polvorones.