Homemade Recipes: Madeleines Recipe

Madeleines Recipe

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Ingredients:

1 egg

1/4 cup castor sugar

1 tsp vanilla essence

1/2 cup plain flour

1/2 tsp baking powder

90g butter, melted and cooled

icing sugar, to dust

plain flour, to dust tin

Directions:

Preheat oven to 180C

Lightly grease a 12-hole madeleine tin ( or shallow round bottomed patty tins) & dust lightly with flour

Shake out the excess

Using electric beaters, beat the egg, castor sugar & vanilla together for 2 minutes, until pale, frothy & increased in volume

Sift the flour & baking powder together & gently fold into the egg mixture

Add the melted butter, & fold to combine

Spoon the batter evenly into the prepared tin.

Bake for 8 minutes or until puffed & firm to a gentle touch

Stand in the tin for 3 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely

Dust lightly with icing sugar to serve