Cake "Ladies' Fingers" is unusual in the way of constructing a sweet design and very tasty in all respects. He is especially loved by children and men. Recipe Lady's fingers cake comes down to baking eclairs and preparing a delicious cream for soaking. Not the most difficult option for making a cake. Therefore, they can please their home more often, constantly changing the composition of creams to give the cake a variety of tastes.
Cake Recipe Ladies Fingers
To prepare the dough, you need the following products: a glass of flour, a glass of water, 100 grams of butter, 4 eggs, salt.
For cream: a glass of sugar (less to taste), one and a half to two glasses of sour cream, vanilla sugar.
How to cook ladies fingers?
Cooking Chopsticks
Lady's fingers cake recipe requires choux pastry. To do this, collect pods in a pan, put butter there. The water should boil - the butter will dissolve. After that, reduce the heat to the minimum and start adding flour a little. Knead the dough well, without removing it from the heat for about another two minutes.
As a result, the dough should be homogeneous, smooth, without lumps and shiny in appearance. The consistency of the test is quite peculiar. For the dough to turn out right, it needs to be thoroughly kneaded. Therefore, it is better to use a mixer with special spiral nozzles for whipping the dough.
When the dough has cooled, it will be possible to beat eggs one at a time into it. This process will take some amount of time, because it will not be easy to intervene the eggs. At first they will slide along the test, but in the end they will still get a homogeneous dough: you just need to approach the process with patience.
The finished dough needs to be transferred to a pastry bag with a round nozzle. Instead of a special bag, you can use an ordinary plastic bag (but you need to be very dense, because the dough is thick) with a cut corner.
Grease a baking tray for “fingers” with sunflower oil. Squeeze strips of dough out of the bag in such a way that their width is approximately equal to a centimeter, and their length is 6-8 centimeters. Between the strips on the baking sheet there should be at least a centimeter gap, because during baking the dough will do, and they can stick together.
Bake “fingers” for about 15-20 minutes in the oven, heating it to 220 degrees. At this temperature, withstand “fingers” for about five minutes (the dough rises and grows), then reduce the temperature to 180 degrees so that they harden.
The baked strips of custard dough inside will have a cavity. They are formed largely due to temperature differences, so do not forget to provide this condition. Golden crust will tell about the readiness of the sticks. So you can get them out of the oven.
Cooking cream
Cake Recipe Ladies fingers cream defines as easy to prepare. It really is. You can use sour cream mixed with sugar and vanilla as a cream. All the “fingers” are dipped into this cream one at a time and placed on a dish in a slide, the top is poured with the remnants of sour cream, then the cake is placed in the refrigerator. This is necessary so that the sour cream thickens, and the “fingers” are thoroughly saturated with cream.
On top of the cake for beauty, you can pour melted chocolate, garnish with fruits, nuts or candied fruits. Now dessert Ladies fingers ready.
Cream can be prepared in another way. It all depends on culinary preferences and imagination. You can add condensed milk, cocoa, nuts, coconut and chocolate to it.
You can try this option: a can of boiled condensed milk, 150 grams of soft butter at room temperature, a glass of coarsely chopped walnuts. Or this: a glass of sour cream, a glass of sugar and grated chocolate (but do not take porous, it crumbles and soaks). Also, custard and semolina cream with butter are used for this cake.