Madeleines

cake or cookie???  i had alot of school work to do during thanksgiving break…so we didn’t do any cooking for thanksgiving…n had hot pot at my sis’..n decided to make some chocolate and green tea madeleines…recipe adapted from here…

Ingredients

• 1 stick of unsalted butter
• 1 cup of all purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder
• 1/8 teaspoon of salt
• 3 large eggs
• 2/3 cup of sugar
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

Variations

• 4 oz of bittersweet chocolate – for chocolate madeleines
• 1 tablespoon of matcha powder – for green tea madeleines

• melt butter in double boiler (for chocolate madeleines melt chocolate with butter)
• beat sugar and eggs until it thickens…then add vanilla extract
• sift flour, baking powder and salt mixture over the eggs batter and fold in

• for green tea madeleines…mix matcha powder into the flour mixture
• fold in butter mixture after flour and egg mixture is combined

• cover and refrigerate…
• butter and dust madeleine pan
• bake at 375 deg F for 10 minutes

Chocolate Madeleines…

Green Tea Madeleines…