Ladyfingers
Ready In: 40 mins
Serves: 24
Yields: 24 cookies
Ingredients
- 4 egg whites, large
- 2⁄3 cup sugar
- 4 egg yolks, large
- 7⁄8 cup scant all-purpose flour
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking powder
Directions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Line two 17-inch-by-l2-by-r-inch baking sheets with baking parchment.
- Fit large pastry bag with a plain 1/2 inch round tube.
- Place egg whites in bowl of electric mixer and whip until soft peaks start to form.
- Slowly add 2 tablespoons of the sugar and continue to beat until stiff and glossy.
- Transfer to another bowl.
- Add yolks to mixer bowl and stir in remaining sugar.
- Whip until thick and very pale in color and remove bowl from stand.
- Sift flour and baking powder together onto a sheet of wax paper.
- Fold half the egg whites into the egg yolk mixture.
- Fold in the flour, and then fold in the remaining egg whites.
- Transfer mixture to pastry bag and pipe out onto prepared baking sheet.
- Bake for 8 minutes.
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