Madeleines

Name: Madeleines (Génoise Cookies)
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: ¼ teaspoon baking powder; 1½ cups sifted cake flour; 4 whole eggs; 1½ sticks butter (¾ cup); Clarified butter to coat pans; Dash of salt; ¾ cup sugar; 1 teaspoon grated lemon rind; ½ teaspoon vanilla; Confectioners’ sugar

Génoise Cookies

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Hows and Whys of French Cooking

By Alma Lach

Published 1974

About

These cookies are variants on the Génoise butter cake batter. The ingredients are somewhat different, but the technique is essentially the same.

Ingredients

Clarified butter to coat pans
1½ sticks butter (¾ cup)
¼ teaspo

Cookies
Vegetarian

Method

Coat Madeleine cooky pans with melted, clarified butter. Refrigerate and then give a second coating of butter. Melt the 1½ sticks butter in a small skillet. Let it cool, but do not let it solidify.
Stir baking powder into the flour. Put eggs, salt, and sugar into a