Madeleines

Name: Madeleines
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 3 eggs; 120g sugar; 130g plain flour and 1 tsp baking powder; 120g butter, melted and cooled; Zest of 1 lemon; 1 tbsp honey

Madeleines/mad-LEN/

Also known as: Madeleine, French Madeleines

About this dish

Small, shell-shaped butter sponge cakes with a characteristic hump, crisp at the edges and soft inside.

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Ingredients

🥚3 eggs

🍬120g sugar

🌾130g plain flour and 1 tsp baking powder

🧈120g butter, melted and cooled

🍋Zest of 1 lemon

🍯1 tbsp honey

Method

Serves 2

Whisk the eggs, sugar and honey until pale and thick.

Fold in the flour, baking powder and zest, then the melted butter.

Cover and chill the batter for at least 1 hour; this helps form the hump.

Spoon into buttered and floured madeleine moulds.

Bake at 220°C (425°F) for 4 minutes, then at 180°C (350°F) for 5–6 minutes until golden. Unmould at once.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

Madeleines come from Commercy in Lorraine; Marcel Proust made them a symbol of memory in 'In Search of Lost Time'.

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