Madeleines

Marie-Pierre Labelle
Marie-Pierre Labelle @cook_3655805

When I read Proust for the first time, in my teenage years, I fell in love with the story behind his madeleines. In "Du côté de chez Swann", while drinking tea and eating a madeleine, the smell brings him back to his younger years at his aunt's home. So, my mother gave me a madeleine recipe, and I started baking them. It's been around 15 years that I make madeleines, and it became my favorite dessert, as well as my specialty.

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Ingredients

20 mins
16 servings
  1. 3/4 cupFlour
  2. 1/4 tspBaking powder
  3. 1/4 tspSalt
  4. 2Eggs
  5. 1/2 cupSugar
  6. Choice of flavor
  7. 1/2 cupButter

Cooking Instructions

20 mins
  1. 1

    Preheat the oven at 200C (400F), and butter a madeleine pan. Set aside.

  2. 2

    Mix the flour, the baking powder and the salt together in a bowl.

  3. 3

    With an electric mixer for about 5 minutes, beat the eggs and the sugar with the choice of flavor. Proust's original recipe is with green tea; you can also choose either chocolate, cocoa, lemon and/or lime zest, or vanilla, or any other flavor.

  4. 4

    Add the dry ingredients to the eggs & sugar mix with a wood spoon. Add the butter, and whisk with the electric mixer until the mixture has a texture similar to that of dough.

  5. 5

    Put around 3/4 of a tablespoon in each cavity of the madeleine pan. Put in the oven for about 10 to 12 minutes, or until the contour is golden.

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