Fingers, or ladies' fingers, are light, long, crispy biscuits, also known as Budur biscuits, Naples biscuits, savoy or savoyardi biscuits. Sometimes they are confused with "cat's tongues", but those are larger and softer.
It is necessary
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- 1/2 cup (about 2 tablespoons) potato starch
- 1 cup flour;
- 4 chicken eggs;
- 2/3 cup granulated sugar
- vanilla extract;
- powdered sugar.
Instructions
Step 1
To make "ladies' fingers" fluffy and crispy, they use a large amount of flour, a little starch and sprinkle with powdered sugar before baking to create a hard crispy crust.
Step 2
Preheat oven to 175C. Prepare a baking sheet lined with baking paper. To make the "fingers" clear and not touching when baking, line the paper into three horizontal rows 7-8 centimeters high with 2.5 centimeters between them. Take a bag for dough, put a round tip with a diameter of 1.25 centimeters.
Step 3
Remove the eggs from the refrigerator in advance. They should be at room temperature. Separate the white from the yolk.
Step 4
Using a mixer on high speed, beat the yolk with 2 tablespoons of sugar. Whisk for about 5 minutes, until the mixture is thick and light yellow. When you remove the mixer, the egg mass should slowly drain off the beaters in a thick, continuous ribbon. Add vanilla extract.
Step 5
Mix flour with starch and sift. Pour into the egg mass in a thin stream and mix.
Step 6
In a clean, dry bowl, beat the egg white with clean dry whisk attachments. Warm whites take longer to whisk than chilled whites, but give a thicker, more stable foam. When you beat the protein to soft peaks, stir in the remaining sugar and beat until stiff peaks. Gently combine the beaten egg whites with the dough. Stir not with a mixer, but with a spoon, achieving not so much the homogeneity of the dough, but the fact that there are no obvious inclusions in it.
Step 7
Transfer the dough to a pastry bag and squeeze long stripes out of it, in accordance with the drawn lines. The distance between the workpieces should be 2.5 centimeters.
Step 8
Take a sieve and dust the cookies with powdered sugar or fine sugar. Place the baking sheet in the oven and bake the ladies' fingers for 8-10 minutes. Cookies are tenderly golden and springy when pressed with a finger.
Step 9
Remove the cookies from the oven and let cool slightly. Using a rubber spatula, remove the still warm "ladies' fingers" from the sheet. Allowing the cookies to cool completely on baking paper will make it difficult to separate one from the other later. Chill the ladies' fingers on the wire rack before using or storing them. If you are not going to cook dishes with "ladies' fingers" or serve them to the table in the near future, it is better to freeze the biscuits. They stale very quickly.
Step 10
Before freezing, fold the cookies in several rows, laying them with baking paper, put them in a plastic bag and send them to the freezer. So "ladies' fingers" can be stored for up to 2-3 weeks.
