Madeleines

Name: Madeleines
Yield: Makes 24-30
Ingredients: 2 eggs and their weight in: caster sugar (vanilla sugar if possible); unsalted butter, softened; 2 eggs and their weight in: caster sugar (vanilla sugar if possible); 2 eggs and their weight in: caster sugar (vanilla sugar if possible); self-raising flour; juice of ½ lemon

Preparation info

Makes
24-30

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Poor Cook

By Susan Campbell and Caroline Conran

Published 1971

About

Ingredients

2 eggs and their weight in: caster sugar (vanilla sugar if possible)
unsalted butter, softened
self-raising flour

Cake
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to Reg 5/375°. Separate the egg yolks from the whites. Beat the yolks and sugar together in a basin until white and fluffy. Add the butter softened to a creamy consistency, and beat away until the mixture is smooth. Beat in the flour and lemon juice and finally the egg