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Baking With Deer Park's Angela Beauman

For one local woman, there's money to be made in Argentine cookies

Angela Beauman didn’t plan on getting a business idea at the doctor’s office.

But that was the outcome of her trips to a local doctor, who is originally from Argentina.

“Every day I went into his office, I brought his staff some goodies,” said Beauman, owner of Buenos Angies, a retail operation she created four years ago to make Argentinian cookies. “One day I thought, I should look for something to make that was specific to his liking. I found a recipe for alaforjes, an Argentinian cookie, and made batch after batch until he approved.”

That was four years ago, and now she's made it her business..

Alfajores are delicate Argentinian cookies. There are many variations of alfajores, however, its most basic form consists of two round delicate cookies, crumbly and buttery cookies, joined together with dulce de leche, a sweet, milk-based caramel and enjoyed with a cup of coffee or tea.

While traditionally an Argentine savory, they’re also commonly found in other Latin American countries like Chile, Peru, Colombia and Mexico.  

Buenos Angie’s specializes in the traditional Argentinian alfajore, an extraordinary little sweet. Angie asserts “they absolutely melt in your mouth” and “you have never tasted anything so delicious.”

At first, Angela made them for family and friends -- a tray for Christmas here, a tray for someone having a party there. But the little cookies went over so well that she incorporated and started making them commercially.

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Now, she shows up at fairs and markets, and shows off her alfajores across Long Island and New York City.

That includes the Queens County Market, Lexington Avenue Spring Fair, and other ‘pop up fairs.‘ She donated to an art show honoring a Latin American artist recently. And also took part in "Broadway Supports Variations" -- a benefit to establish a Scholarship Fund, which will offer local young dancers a chance to realize their talent and to ensure that no student be deprived of an arts education because of a lack of financial ability.

Of course you don't have to show up at a street fair to sample her work. If you want to reach Angela, you can catch up with her on her website, and get alfajores baked to order  –  minimum 12 cookies.

Angela is known to long time Deer Park residents as one of the family members who used to help out at Mr. D’s cleaners, a landmark in town - and she takes pride in the professionalism she learned in her father's business in town.

“I’ve set this up by the book,” she says. “I could make them in my house, but I rent space in a commercial kitchen in Long Island City to make my product. I can bake six hundred cookies at a time there, in the enormous ovens. They‘re very professional, and guide you from soup to nuts.”

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