Homemade Ladyfingers (VIDEO)
Perfectly baked and ever so slightly crisp on the outside, yet soft and airy on the inside, this Homemade Ladyfingers Recipe (Savoiardi) is a game changer for your next tiramisu! So much better than buying store-bought cookies! This savoiardi recipe is so easy to make and the cookies bake up so light and fluffy like perfect little sponges.
- Prep time
- 15 min
- Cook time
- 10 min
- Yield
- 28 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 4 Eggs (room temp. white and yolk separately)
- 100 g Granulated sugar (50g to make whip the egg yolk, 50g to whip the egg white)
- 60 g Pastry flour (sifted)
- 50 g Corn starch (sifted)
- Pinch of salt
- Powdered sugar (lightly dust before baking)
Instructions
- 1
Heat oven to 200 C / 392 F no fan
- 2
In a Stand mixer, or with the help of an Electric hand mixer, whip egg yolk and half of the sugar for 3-4 minutes until sugar dissolves. When you take a small amount of egg yolk and sugar mixture between your fingers it should be smooth and not grainy
- 3
Ideally using a Stand mixer, make the meringue; Start whipping egg white, then when it´s foamy, start adding the sugar, a small amount at a time. Whip for about 5 minutes just until early stiff peaks but do not over-beat it
- 4
Sift together dry ingredients (flour, starch, salt)
- 5
Loose up the egg yolk mixture with about ¼ of the meringue, then fold in the rest of the meringue and the flour mixture VERY carefully in 4 steps. Use a Rubber spatula to make sure that you do not deflate the batter
- 6
Get your piping bag with a round nozzle tip and pipe 28 equal sized finger shapes leaving enough space in between them.
- 7
Dust with powdered sugar
- 8
Bake for 10-12 minutes. After baking, let them cool on Cooling rack
- 9
Store at room temperature in air-tight container