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French Madeleines

This recipe isn't right yet. I need to look at other instructions - I see a lot that talk about heating the eggs and sugar over a double boiler.

1 cup sugar
5 eggs
1/2 cup butter (melted)
1 1/2 cups cake flour (sifted)
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 lemon or orange, zested
confectioners' sugar (dusting)

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

Beat eggs until light yellow in color; add sugar, butter, vanilla, zest and continue mixing. Sift flour and baking powder and add to wet ingredients and mix well.

Place a small amount of batter into each well-greased madeline mold. Do not overfill. Bake for 10 minutes or until light golden in color. Turn out madelines and cool. Dust with confectionery sugar.

Notes:

These were tasty but dry. Need to work on preparation instructions. Also need to refine production - they stick to the madeline pan and I have to wash it between batches. Not so fun. Butter? Cooking spray? Batter was nice and fluffy - use less in each cup than you might think is needed - it rises quite a bit.

Advice from Eunice: "I was just checking out your madeleine recipe as i was reminiscing on another sponge cake: génoise. (re: sticking to the pan, if you grease pans with melted butter and also dust with flour, should help with the release. also, IMHO, upping the butter might help with release as well as addressing the dryness. recipes that i've seen seem to have at least a 1:1 volume, butter to flour ratio if not more butter. some people increase the amount of egg yolks as that also adds "fat" content to batter. as far as using a double boiler, that's just to ensure that batter doesn't deflate once you fold in other ingredients or in the middle of baking. if your batter already doubled/tripled in volume with no decrease in volume post-baking, that step is not necessary. also, a good trick is to brown your butter to make a beurre noisette - straining out the browned butter bits aftwards, of course. it adds an extra richness.)

Comments:

blackbirdpies

1 yr ago

doh! posted a very long and convoluted response on the forum to you and realized that i shoulda' posted it here. it's on the "forums and comments and generating community" post.