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Madeleines Cookies Recipe

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These little Madeleines are just what you need for a quick tea-time treat for the family. Great for the kids to help you make and big kids love them too!ย 
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These little Madeleines are just what you need for a quick tea-time treat for the family. Great for the kids to help you make and big kids love them too! Made famous by Marcel Proust they are a little French classic! These little sponge cakes are best eaten on the same day, but that's not usually a problem!

Leaf shaped cake cookies sprinkled with icing sugar and bits of dried orange peel.

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Madelaines

Madeleines Cookies Recipe

Judith Coates
These little Madeleines are just what you need for a quick tea-time treat for the family. Great for the kids to help you make and big kids love them too!ย 
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Ingredients

  • 6 oz of flour
  • 2 eggs
  • 20 g confectioners sugar
  • Grated zest of 1 lemon
  • 1 tablespoon of orange or lemon juice
  • 6 tablespoon unsalted butter melted and cooled
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
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Instructions
 

  • Pre-heat your oven to 190ยฐC.
  • Grease a 12 cup madeleine pan with a little butter
  • Sift the flour and baking together and leave aside.
  • In a large bowl, beat the eggs and confectioners sugar together using a mixer if you have one. Do this for about 5 minutes until it becomes thick and creamy.
  • Fold the lemon zest and the juice into the mixture.
  • Gradually fold in about a quarter of the flour and a quarter of the melted butter.
  • Then fold in another quarter of the flour and then another quarter of the melted butter.
  • Continue folding in the flour and melted butter in quarters until it has all been mixed in.
  • Leave the mixture to stand for about 10 minutes.
  • Using a tablespoon, gently spoon the mixture into the madeleine tin.
  • Bake in the pre-heated oven for about 12 minutes until a needle inserted in the centre comes out clean.
  • Turn your cakes out onto a wire rack to cool.
  • Dust with confectioners sugar.
  • Your madeleines are now ready to eat!
  • They are best eaten on the same day but that's not usually a problem!ย 
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