Gourmet Madeleine Cookies |
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Prep Time: 15 Minutes Cook Time: 25 Minutes |
Ready In: 40 Minutes Servings: 6 |
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Delicious and soft French cookies. The recipe is from Bon Appetit Magazine (January 2000). This cookie launched a thousand memories — and a literary masterpiece — for Marcel Proust. The group enjoys madeleines with tea, just as the narrator did in Swann’s Way. Uses a special madeleine pan (a metal mold with scallop-shaped indentations, sold at cookware stores). Ingredients:
2 large eggs |
2/3 cup sugar |
1 teaspoon vanilla extract |
1/2 teaspoon grated lemon peel |
1 pinch salt |
1 cup all-purpose flour |
10 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted, cooled slightly |
powdered sugar |
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 375°F Generously butter and flour pan for large madeleines (about 3x1 1/4 inches).
2. Using electric mixer, beat eggs and 2/3 cup sugar in large bowl just to blend. Beat in vanilla, lemon peel and salt. Add flour; beat just until blended. Gradually add cooled melted butter in steady stream, beating just until blended.
3. Spoon 1 tablespoon batter into each indentation in pan. Bake until puffed and brown, about 10-16 minutes. Cool 5 minutes. Gently remove from pan. Repeat process, buttering and flouring pan before each batch. (Can be made 1 day ahead.).
4. Dust cookies with powdered sugar.
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