Cheese madeleines

Name: Cheese madeleines
Yield: Makes about 12
Ingredients: 10 g salt; 3 large eggs; 135 g unsalted softened butter, plus extra for greasing; 200 g grated cheddar; 135 g self-raising flour

Preparation info

Makes about
12

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Mark Hix on Baking

By Mark Hix

Published 2012

About

A nice savoury variation of the above — you could even stick a nugget of blue cheese in the centre and scatter a few chopped walnuts on top before putting them in the oven.

Ingredients

135 g unsalted softened butter, plus extra for greasing
135 g self-raising flour
200

Snack
Vegetarian

Method

Heat the butter in a pan until it foams and begins to colour. Leave to cool. Sieve the flour into a bowl, add 140 g of the Cheddar and the salt, then mix in the browned butter and eggs. Pour into a container and leave to rest for 2-3 hours in the fridge.

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