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Published 2007
Madeleines are made like a sponge cake: whole eggs are beaten with sugar, and then flour is folded in. But they are denser and more buttery than genoise, the classic sponge cake, because the recipe calls for more butter and browns it, which gives these delicate cakelike cookies a deep nutty flavor.
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