It's almost Christmas time! Now you can bake loads of stuff but I like to keep it easy. Madeleines are slowly making their way back in to the home baking scene. They are really easy and always good. They originate from France and so is my recipe. Good luck and I wish you a very merry Christmas!
Ingredients for 40 small madeleines:
- 200 grams of caster sugar
- 2 tsp of vanillasugar or 1 tsp vanilla essence
- 4 eggs
- 250 grams of self-raising flour
- 2 tsp of full fat milk
- 125 grams of melted butter
- 100 grams of dark chocolate
- powdered sugar to decorate (optional)
Method:
1. In order to make madeleines you'll need a baking tray for madeleines like the one in the picture.
2. Preheat your over up to 190 degrees.
3. Mix the sugar, the vanilla en the eggs.
4. Sift the self-raising flour and mix it into the sugar and the eggs. If you have a kitchen aid or another machine it's quite simple to do it like this:
5. Melt the butter and mix it together with the milk in to the batter. Your batter should look like the picture below.
6. Chop the chocolate in to small pieces and mix in in to your batter by hand! You want the consistency of the chocolate chunks.
7. Grease in your baking tray and fill them up to 3/4 with the batter. Place them in the oven for about 10 minutes until they are golden brown. Watch them closely because they bake really quickly!
The perfect madeleine has a lump on the top. They say you can get the lump by opening your oven door swiftly when the sides of the madeleines are baked but when the centre is still soft.
Let them cool down completely
8. You can remove the madeleines by taking a sharp knife and to gently peel them of the baking tray.
9. Decorate the madeleines with a small amount of powdered sugar. Add some Christmas details for the full seasonal effect :)
Good luck and a very merry Christmas!
