This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe is for lemon
madeleines. I’ve made madeleines many times before, but they are always a
little different. This is a pretty traditional recipe, but I wouldn’t expect
anything different from a Dorie Greenspan recipe. The only unusual aspect of
these cookies was the glaze, but I opted to not glaze these because I prefer my
madeleines not too sweet. Make sure that you check out the Tuesdays with Dorie blog
to see the links left by all of these week’s bakers.
Most madeleines have you rest and refrigerate the batter and
some point. Sometimes you rest the batter then put it in the pan, other times
you but the batter in the pan and then rest and refrigerate. This recipe does a
little bit of both; I made the batter one day and refrigerated it overnight.
Once you put the batter in the pan, you then rest and refrigerate for an hour.
Not the recipe you want to make if you are in a hurry.
I didn’t use the mixer at all to make these, and I think
that they turned out better. In the bowl from my mixer, even though I fold in
the butter with a spatula, it never works quite right. My madeleines are nice and
light and rose beautifully. As I said I didn’t glaze them, but they are really
nice as is. I never can get a very good photograph of the madeleines I make,
but don’t let that fool you, these are great!
Recipe from Baking Chez Moi by Dorie Greenspan, page 212
6 comments:
They look wonderful - glad you enjoyed them.
I totally agree with you, these madeleines are great! And your madeleines looks lovely!
I'm sure they were great! even though you do need a lot of time for the resting, I like they they are so easy to make.
Lovely looking little cakes. And they are hard to photograph, aren't they?!
I thought the ones I folded in rather than mixing turned out better so it's interesting to hear someone else say that too.
I agree with you on the mixer for folding - I think that bump at the bottom of the bowl can make a good fold difficult.
Looks good
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