Lady Fingers...Prelude to a Tiramisu!
What are lady fingers? Obviously they are these wonky digits on the end of my hands….but ALSO a delicious sponge cake-y cookie used in things like TIRAMISU! These cookies can be little tricky, the hardest part is folding everything together gently, so no taking your aggression out on these babies! Make them in a Zen state of mind!
Last fingers…but the cookie kind!
Ladyfinger Cookies
Yield: about 24-30 3” long cookies
Preheat your oven to 400*F
3 Egg Yolks
3 Egg Whites
1/3 cup Sugar
Flour, sifted
pinch of Salt
Icing sugar for sprinkling on top ~3 Tablespoons
In the bowl of your mixer whip your 3 egg yolks with approximately 60% of the 1/3 cup of sugar (save the rest of the sugar to whip up with your egg whites). Whip until super light and fluffy 5-10 minutes. Then place into a large bowl.
In a super clean bowl with a super clean whisk, whip up your egg whites and pinch of salt. When they start to turn white and foamy, sprinkle in the remaining sugar, then whip until medium stiff peaks form.
In 3 parts, fold the egg whites into the egg yolks, start with one third, gently fold that in until it’s almost incorporated, then add the next third and repeat the folding, and then the final third, until all the egg whites have been incorporated.
Now sprinkle all your flour on top of the eggs and continue to gently fold until the flour has been incorporated. Don’t worry if you have any little flour lumps, that is ok! Try not to over mix your batter or else it will get super runny and make piping a bit torturous!
With a piping bag pipe log shaped cookies onto parchment lined baking trays. Each log should be about 3” long and 1” wide.
Sprinkle the cookies heavily with icing sugar, a sifter works great for this.
Pop into the oven and bake for about 15 minutes or until golden brown.
These can now be eaten or made into delicious tiramisu! Which is what I shall be making tomorrow!