What is it used for?

Lady fingers are light and soft biscuits, roughly shaped like a large finger. They are usually used as the base for different desserts, for example, charlotte and tiramisu.

Yield: 30 lady fingers, 10-12cm long

Ingredients:

• 120g egg whites or 4 egg whites
• 70g powder suger
• 65g egg yolks – 3 egg yolks
• 40g starch
• 40g flour
• some icing sugar for the top

Step by step:

• Place egg-whites into a bowl and beat them until soft peak start to form.
• Add gradually sugar and continue beating until stiff and glossy.
• With spatula mix in carefully egg yolks.
• Sift flour and starch together and mix them slowly with a spatula into the egg-mixture.
• Transfer mixture to pipping bag and pipe out onto prepared baking sheet in a form of strips that look like lady fingers. Sift some icing sugar on top.
• Bake around 10 minutes at 200C.
• When ready take them off carefully from both sides with a spatula of the baking tray and cool down.