Description
I haven't made these myself as i find them easy to find — but this recipe is posted in response to a request from someone who doesn't find them so easy to find! Yield is approximate.
Ingredients
- Eggs
- White Sugar
- Cake Flour
- Icing Sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350f degrees
- Brush 2 baking sheets with small amount of softened butter, then line with parchment paper
- Set aside
- Place egg whites in a mixing bowl and beat with an electric mixer until stiff peaks form
- Slowly beat in the white sugar
- Continue beating until stiff peaks form again
- The meringue should be smooth and glossy
- In a separate bowl, with a fork, lightly beat the egg yolks, then fold into the meringue with a wooden spoon
- Sift the flour over the mixture and then gently fold in
- You will now need a pastry bag with a large, plain
- Fill pastry bag with the ladyfinger batter
- Onto the prepared baking sheets, pipe strips of batter 5 inches long and 3 / 4 inch wide diagonally, leaving 1 to 2 inches between each strip
- Sprinkle half the icing sugar over the ladyfingers
- Wait 5 minutes and sprinkle with the remaining sugar
- Holding the parchment paper in place with your thumb, lift one side of the baking sheet and gently tap it on your work surface to remove excess icing sugar
- Repeat with other sheet
- Place sheets side by side in preheated oven and bake, without opening the oven door at all, for 10 minutes
- Then, rotate the baking sheets front to back so the ladyfingers colour evenly
- Cook until lightly golden, about 5 more minutes
- Remove the ladyfingers from the baking sheet with a metal spatula while still hot, and let cool on a rack