Italian Lady Fingers

Italian Lady Fingers - Savoiardi

Italian Lady Fingers or better known as Savoiardi, are cookies that are traditionally used for tiramisu or just eaten as a snack. Most recipes for these cookies have you seperate the eggs and fold in the egg whites at the end, which can be very time consuming and you end up with an extra bowl to clean. I decided to make these cookies when I was on The Great American Baking Show to accompany my goat cheese pot de cremes with a balsamic honey glaze for my Signature Bake during the Semi-Finals. I knew that time and ease of preparation would be a factor and making them the traditional way was not an option. So of course I began to think out of the box. For my recipe I whipped together the whole eggs, granulated sugar and vanilla extract for 10 minutes. I found that this incorporated enough air and volume that you would normally get by whipping the egg whites. All I had to do was add the sifted flour and baking powder and fold it into the whipped eggs. Easy peasy!!

Hope you give this method a try!

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Italian Lady Fingers - Savoiardi

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