How to make Savoyardi cookies according to a classic and simplified recipe at home. Cooking secrets. Video recipes.
Savoyardi also have another name: ladies' fingers, Naples biscuits, biscuit biscuits and la culé biscuits. But most of all it is known as Savoyardi. It is an indispensable component of the famous tiramisu dessert, and it is also used for many other desserts, such as cake, charlotte, etc. It is a sweet oval-shaped cookie covered with sugar grains, which can be bought in the store. However, making it yourself at home is much tastier. Having tasted Savoyardi once, you will forever remain a fan of this Italian dessert.
Cooking secrets
- Savoyards are prepared from biscuit dough, for which they use whipped egg yolks with sugar until a thick lush foam. Sifted flour with whipped proteins and vanilla extract are added to the mass.
- Use eggs at room temperature. They whip better, and the dessert turns out to be more tasty and tender. Therefore, prepare all the ingredients in advance. Egg yolks and whites are beaten separately. If you beat the egg yolks for longer, the dough will be more tender and fluffy. At the same time, it is important not to overdo it with egg whites, otherwise they will lose their shape and become too liquid.
- Always sift flour, at least 3 times. Then the savoyardi will be tender and airy.
- You can add different flavors to the dough: a pinch of salt, a little alcohol (whiskey, cognac or vodka), small nut crumbs, coconut flakes, cocoa powder, starch, citrus fruit zest, etc. less tasty. Add alcoholic beverages to the dough when combining the yolks with proteins, and dry additives to flour before kneading the dough.
- Set the dough on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper using a pastry bag in the form of tubes, which are sprinkled with powdered sugar. For a crispy savoyardi, sprinkle the cookies with powdered sugar before placing the cookies in the oven.
- The prepared dough for Savoyardi should be baked immediately. The longer it stands, the worse it will rise, and the cookies will not be perfect and fluffy enough.
- The products are baked in a preheated oven up to 180 degrees until golden brown.
- Savoyardi easily absorbs liquid, which makes them very soft. Therefore, it is used as a component for various desserts. Although it can be served as a stand-alone dessert or as an addition to ice cream.
How to make savoyardi cookies - a detailed step-by-step recipe
The well-known elongated Savoyardi biscuit biscuits are an exquisite Italian dessert. It is loved by very young children who are not yet accustomed to solid food. Because if you moisten the Savoyardi with milk a little, it instantly becomes soft.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 329 kcal.
- Servings - 20
- Cooking time - 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- Eggs - 3 pcs.
- Powdered sugar - 50 g
- Flour - 150 g
- Butter - for greasing the baking sheet
- Sugar - 150 g
Making savoyardi cookies:
- Separate the yolks from the proteins.
- Beat the yolks with a mixer with sugar (75 g) to form a smooth light-colored mass.
- Put the cooled proteins in a clean and dry container and beat with a mixer with the remaining sugar (75 g) until fluffy white foam until strong peaks. First, beat the whites with a sugar-free mixer at minimum speed until the mass becomes bulky. Then gradually add granulated sugar, increasing the speed of rotation. This method will allow you to get a thick protein mass. Check the readiness of the proteins as follows: tilt the container, if the proteins do not flow down, then they are well beaten.
- Combine the yolks with the whites in small portions, stirring slowly until smooth. You need to knead very carefully so that the foam does not settle, then the cookies will turn out to be light, airy and tender.
- Pour the sifted flour into the egg mixture and mix the dough very gently with movements from bottom to top until smooth. The main thing is to remove the lumps from the dough and not let it fall.
- Put the mass in a pastry bag or syringe.
- Cover the baking sheet with baking paper and brush with thin butter or vegetable oil.
- From a pastry bag, squeeze strips of dough 10-15 cm long onto a baking sheet at a short distance from each other, because "Ladies' fingers" will rise and increase in volume.
- Sprinkle the dough strips with a thick layer of powdered sugar or sugar through a fine sieve. But many housewives mix the powder with sugar for sprinkling and half of the mixture cover the surface of the cookies immediately before baking, and the remaining sugar is laid out after 10 minutes of baking, when it is absorbed. They say that double-coated sugar products are tastier.
- Send the baking sheet with the dough to bake in a preheated oven to 180 ° C for 10-15 minutes until golden brown. Do not open the oven door during baking, otherwise the Savoyards will settle and become too flat.
- Turn off the oven and leave the cookies in it to cool completely. the temperature difference will cause the biscuit to settle. It is best to wait 30 minutes before removing the baked goods.
- Remove the savoyards from the baking sheet and serve. Remember to remove the cookies from the baking sheet completely dry. If they are too soft, you can dry them a little more in the oven or leave them at room temperature overnight.
A simple recipe for savoyardi at home
If there is no time to separately beat the whites and yolks, or there is no pastry syringe or bag, but you want a delicious Italian treat, bake savoyardi cookies using the simple technology described in this recipe.
Ingredients:
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Sugar - 100 g
- Powdered sugar - 50 g for sprinkling
- Flour - 80 g
- Baking powder - 1 tsp
Cooking savoyardi at home according to a simple recipe:
- Beat eggs with a mixer with sugar in a water bath until they increase in volume 4 times within 8 minutes. To do this, boil water in a saucepan and place a container with the egg mixture on it so that the container does not touch the water.
- Mix flour with baking powder and gradually add to the eggs, sifting through a strainer. Knead a thick and viscous dough. In this case, the mixture should not settle.
- Line a baking dish with baking paper and oil. Pour the dough into a baking sheet in a thin layer.
- Sprinkle the biscuit cake with icing sugar on top.
- Bake cookies in a preheated oven up to 180 ° C for 15-20 minutes. Check the readiness with a wooden stick: it should come out dry.
- Cool the finished biscuit in the form. Then, carefully use a knife to walk along the edges of the mold, separating the biscuit.
- Cut the biscuit into strips. Dry them in the oven if necessary.
