Easy Madeleines with Belly Buttons
- 2 Eggs
- 1 tbsp Honey
- 1 tbsp Milk
- 80 grams Sugar (caster sugar)
- 100 grams Cake flour
- 2/3 tsp Baking powder
- 80 grams Butter
- 15 drops Vanilla oil
- Break the eggs into a bowl and beat with a whisk.
- Add the honey, milk, sugar, and vanilla oil and mix well.
- Sift in the cake flour and baking powder into the bowl from Step 1, and mix in a circular motion using a whisk.
- The flour may fly out in the beginning, so be careful and mix slowly.
- Put the butter in a heatproof container and melt it in the microwave.
- Put the melted butter into the bowl from Step 2, and mix well with a whisk.
- Pour the batter into cupcake molds, cover with plastic wrap and leave to rest at *room temperature* for 20 minutes.
- While the batter is resting, wash the dirty dishes.
- Also, preheat the oven to 210C with the baking sheet inside.
- After 20 minutes, take the baking sheet out of the oven (it's hot so be careful), and quickly put on the batter-filled cups.
- Put the sheet back in the oven and bake for 15 minutes.
- When the madeleines are nicely browned, and a skewer pierced into one comes out clean, they're done.
- The flavor of the madeleines won't have settled yet when they are fresh out of the oven, so be sure to let them rest for half a day or more before enjoying them.
- As time passes, they become moist, and take on a nice sheen on the surface.
- Tip: if you put the batter in a cup with a spout, it's easier to pour into the cups.
- The madeleine on the left has a "belly button."
- The one on the right was baked without resting.
- The size and shape of the 'belly button' will vary depending on the type of cup you bake the batter in - this is quite fun.
- Enjoy different kinds of "belly buttons" using different types of cups, as described below.
- This is a 3 cm diameter mini cup that spreads out vertically.
- It's small but surprisingly deep.
- Using the cups shown in Step 10: The "belly buttons" are more like pot-bellies, but they're cute anyway, so I like them a lot.
- This are foil cups with 7.5 cm diameter bottoms.
- This is a real madeleine cup.
- It's flat.
- Using the foil cups shown in Step 12: If you bake the madeleines in flat, shallow cups, the "belly button" bump in the middle will be not be as pronounced.
- Here I used small morning glory flower-shaped cups, and added 2 tablespoons of cocoa to the batter.
eggs, honey, milk, sugar, flour, baking powder, butter, vanilla oil
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/152914-easy-madeleines-with-belly-buttons (may not work)