alfajor

A popular confection in Andalusia usually made with honey, almonds, nuts, and spices such as clove and coriander.; alfajor (a popular confection in South America usually filled with dulce de leche)

Inherited from Old Spanish alfaxor, beginning as a more jammy food from Andalusian Arabic الْفَشُور (al-fašūr, “nectar, juice”), from Arabic أَفْشُرَج (ʔafšuraj, “juice”). Somewhere surely mixed up with alfaxú, alajú from حَشْو (ḥašw, “filling”).