Lady Finger Cakes are light and sweet sponge cakes roughly shaped like a large finger. They are a principal ingredient in many desserts including Vietnamese Dessert Recipes such as trifles, charlottes and tiramisu. They also have another name is champagne cakes.
Lady Finger Cake (Bánh Sampa)
Today, I will introduce one of interesting Vietnamese Dessert Recipes for you guys. Yes, it is. Lady finger cakes in Vietnamese style. These cakes are really crispy and tasty. You can make it at home and store in jar to use day by day. Now, let us start making right now.
Ingredients:
30g butter
100g wheat flour
3 chicken eggs
70g white sugar
½ teaspoon vanilla starch
½ teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon milk powder
A little wheat flour to sprinkle pattern
1 white part of chicken egg
Champagne cake patterns
White sugar to sprinkle on top of cakes
Process:
Step 1: Add butter into small bowl, heat until it melts. Separate yolk and white parts of chicken eggs into 2 different bowls.
Step 2: Use mixer to mix white parts with ½ teaspoon salt and 40g white sugar. Testing by upside down the bowl and white part does not flow down, it is good.
Step 3: Add ½ sugar left into yolks, use mixer to mix well in 5 – 7 minutes. Then add more milk powder and use spoon to mix well.
Step 4: Filter wheat flour. Add it, melted butter; vanilla starch into mixture yolk in step 3, use spoon to mix well.
Step 5: Then, add more mixture white part in step 2, mix them gently. Here is the final step to prepare one of amazing Vietnamese Dessert Recipes.
Step 6: Add a little oil and sprinkle wheat flour on each champagne cake patterns.
Step 7: Use spoon to scoop a little mixture in step 5 into each pattern. If you do not have pattern, you can pour slowly on grilling tray added candle papers into long lines.
Step 8: Heat the grilling store firstly in 3 – 5 minutes at 160 degree. Then bring them to grill in 8 – 10 minutes. Wait to reduce heat and separate cakes out of patterns.
Step 9: Arrange all lady finger cakes on tray again. Use brush to spread white part of chicken egg on top and sprinkle more sugar.
Step 10: Continue grilling at 100 degree from 5 – 7 minutes. With this process, make sure the heat will lower than the first time to keep its crispy longer.
Finally, you can serve these cakes and use them for making other cakes like tiramisu. Sometime when my blood is in low pressure, I prefer eating 2 – 3 these cakes to make me feel better. Hope you will satisfy with one of interesting Vietnamese Dessert Recipes like this and Good luck for your cooking.
Thank you so much for sharing, wanted to make Tiramisu, let me bookmark your recipe; these finger cakes are perfect for it; i will make it for sure.. you got a very good collection of Recipes; must visit my place when time persists :) Recipes passion
Monu Teena 2013-11-09 00:50:40
Thank you so much for sharing, wanted to make Tiramisu, let me bookmark your recipe; these finger cakes are perfect for it; i will make it for sure.. you got a very good collection of Recipes; must visit my place when time persists :) Recipes passion
Chef Yuen 2013-11-27 00:47:35
Hi Monu, Really appreciate that you love my recipe. Hope you will satisfy w this website, my dear. Good luck :)
Rochelle Antolo 2014-02-24 05:14:24
Thank you for this recipes :) Now I can use this to our culinary :)
Chef Yuen 2014-02-24 05:14:24
Hi Rochelle, I am really happen when you love this recipe. Thanks so much :) Happy Cooking time :).