After much contemplation and deliberations, I finally gave in to 'wants' of owning a madeleines pan.
Yay!!! :D

... and there are 2 more of bake wares that I am eyeing!!! Both are quite pricey and I am not sure how often I'll be using them. I will definitely use them once but after that....
I have to deliberate and justify 'wanting' them... :(




Since owning this madeleine pan, I have been experimenting baking Madeleines!

Read few tips and 'how-to' whipped one.

Some are quite laborious, tedious while others seems manageable, that I started to have doubts. I had the notion (still has) that anything French made/baked are delicate in flavours, not easy to master.

I know of one good example, MACARON!!


Some batters are to be  rested overnight, some can just straight away bake. Some use baking powder and some not. Too many variations to name here... Mr Google is your uncle if you so wish to look up and get some bed time reading story on baking 'madeleines'.


I have narrowed down to 2 recipes: French cook book I owned "The Taste of France" (TToF) and of course... none other than the famous Ms Julia Child's (JC)
I posted both recipes below....


I did 2 batches from TToF : first batch - baked straight away as per recipe.

Second batch - refrigerate overnight.


From JC~ just the one and only batch, required refrigeration for an hour.

All three were mixed using Kitchen mixer.

I presumed JC's original recipe was to hand mix till creamy... I am afraid that I did not follow her method, yikes :(. I'd be having muscle pull for the rest of the week if I had done so :(.


I found that madeleins (from The Taste of France cookbook), either you baked
a) Baked straight away
or
b) Refrigerate overnight

Has no significant difference.... both has the 'crisp' on the outside, soft on the inside when its hot, out of the oven. Best eat them on the day as it became 'dense' overnight.

Julia Child's ~ has the same texture as above with crisps on the outside but much softer on the inside. It was still good, eaten the next day.

But what I like about Julia Child's method is the mixing of flour, sugar and egg at the start. It gives a better homogenous batter. You can still whisk to pale/cream, and it still gives that 'hump'.

If I were to bake madeleines again... definitely I chose Julia Child's method :D
after all its Julia Child! it has to be good...right ;p
and its easy to follow :D :D





French Madeleines Ingredients
3 eggs (115g)
115g caster sugar
155g plain flour
100g unsalted butter -melted

zest of 1 lemon

Pre-heat oven to 200 C

Whisk eggs and sugar until mixture is thick and creamy.

Gently fold in flour, melted butter, lemon zest

Spoon into mould (dollop and dont spread)

Lower oven temperature to 180C

Bake for 12-15 minutes until light gold in colour. 

Remove and cool on wire rack.

** adapted with changes  'The Food of France'