Madeleines Recipe
I had been longing to make madeleines or small French Sponge Cake for quite some time. All this while, I postponed the idea of making madeleines because I could not find the shell shaped molds typically designed for madeleines. I thought I would not be exactly baking madeleines if I didn't bake the cake in pans with shell-shaped depressions. My husband and I searched high and low for these distinctive shell-shaped baking pans in town but to no avail. I gave up. In the end, I bought two mini unconventional muffin pans to replace the shell-shaped baking pans and baked madeleines anyway.
Ingredients
- 2 Eggs
- 5ml Vanilla extract
- 65gr Sugar
- 60gr Cake flour
- 55gr Unsalted butter
- Icing sugar for decoration, as desired
Directions
- Preheat oven to 150 degree Celsius.
- Generously grease the madeleines pans with butter then dust them with flour evenly. Set aside.
- Melt butter and let it cool at room temperature. Set aside.
- In a mixing bowl, beat eggs and vanilla extract by using high speed electric mixer for 5 minutes until light.
- Beating the eggs constantly, gradually add sugar and continue beating at high speed until the mixture is thick and pale for another 5 minutes.
- Gently fold flour into the egg mixture 1/3 at a time by using spatula.
- Fold melted butter into the cake batter by using spatula.
- Spoon the cake batter into the molds, but not too full.
- Bake madeleines for 15-20 minutes or until the cakes are golden.
- Release the madeleines from pans and dust them with icing sugar, as desired.
- Serve madeleines warm. They are best eaten on the day they're baked.
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Nutrition Facts
| Amount Per Recipe | %DV |
|---|---|
| Recipe Size 114g | |
| Calories 235 | |
| Calories from Fat 108 | 46% |
| Total Fat 12.07g | 15% |
| Saturated Fat 4.63g | 19% |
| Trans Fat 0.0g | |
| Cholesterol 380mg | 127% |
| Sodium 156mg | 7% |
| Potassium 144mg | 4% |
| Total Carbs 16.92g | 5% |
| Dietary Fiber 0.2g | 1% |
| Sugars 8.04g | 5% |
| Protein 12.21g | 20% |
