Francie’s Apple Madeleines

Preparation info
  • Yield:

    24

    madeleines
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Madeleines: Elegant French Tea Cakes to Bake & Share

By Barbara Feldman Morse

Published 2014

  • About

Apple pie, apple turnovers, apple upside down cake . . . the fruit we’re supposed to eat every day to keep the doctor away certainly makes a mean pastry. These madeleines are adapted from a recipe my friend Francie shared with me. Her French grand-maman, Alice Charbonneau, made an amazing apple turnover, which I transformed into a madeleine (naturally!). Serve them warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or, if you’re opposed to eating ice cream for breakfast, a dollop of vanilla Gree