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Madeleines

A French butter cake molded into shells
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Servings: 24 cakes
Course: Bread, Breakfast, Dessert, Snack
Cuisine: French
Ingredients Equipment Method

Ingredients
  

  • 1/2 Cup Butter (one regular stick, 4oz.)
  • 2 Eggs
  • 1/2 teaspoon Vanilla
  • 2 Tablespoons Grated Orange peel (finely grated)
  • 1 1/4 Cup all-purpose Flour or cake flour
  • 2/3 Cup Granulated Sugar

Equipment

  • 1 Electric mixer
  • 1 large mixing bowl for mixer (if using a stand mixer)
  • 1 medium bowl about 1 1/2 quart
  • 1 spatula
  • 1 cheese grater
  • 1 serving spoon to help fill madeleine pans
  • 1 plate for grating orange
  • 1 set of measuring cups
  • 1 Set of measuring spoons
  • 1 non stick cooking spray with flour
  • 1-2 Regular Madeleine pans

Method
 

  1. Preheat oven to 350 Degrees F
  2. Grate orange using a cheese grater with small holes.
  3. Using mixer, combine butter and sugar and mix well.
  4. Add eggs and vanilla and lemon or orange rind. Mix well. You want to mix for at least 45 seconds on medium speed.
  5. Add flour 1/3rd at a time. and mix well in between each addition.
  6. After all of the flour has been mixed well. Spray Madeleine pans with non-stick cooking spray with flour.
  7. Fill Madeleine pans about 3/4 full.
  8. Place in the oven @350 Degrees F. for 10 minutes.
  9. when they come out of oven they should look like this...