I made the Lemon Madeleines the other day, they were so good, nice lemon flavor! I usually make the second recipe, which are amazing and pretty easy (as long as you remember to come back to check them so they don't burn, been there, done that!)

Meyer Lemon Madeleines

(recipe from newspaper they adapted from a Julia Child recipe)

2 large eggs, lightly beaten in a 2-cup measure

2/3 cup sugar

1 cup all-purpose flour, plus 1 tablespoon extra for preparing molds

5 ounces (1 1/4 sticks) unsalted butter, cut into 6 pieces

Pinch of salt

Grated rind of 2 Meyer lemons

1 tablespoon of freshly squeezed Meyer lemon

Confectioners' sugar for sprinkling

Measure 1/4 cup of eggs into a bowl, then, using a wooden spoon, beat in the sugar and cup of flour. When thoroughly blended, let rest 10 minutes. Meanwhile, melt the butter in a 6-cup saucepan, bring it to a boil, and let it brown lightly.

Place 1 tablespoon flour in a small bowl and blend in 1 1/2 tablespoons browned butter. Set aside for preparing madeleine pans. Stir the rest of the butter over a bowl of ice cubes until cool but liquid. Blend it and the last of the eggs into the batter along with the salt, lemon rind, and juice.

Preheat oven to 375 degrees and set the racks in the upper and lower middle levels.

Paint the madeleine cups with the reserved butter-flour mixture. Divide the batter into 24 lumps of a generous tablespoon each and drop them into the madeleine cups.

Bake in preheated oven 15 minutes until the cakes are lightly browned around the edges, humped in the middle, and slightly shrunken from the cups. Unmold onto a rack. When cool, turn shell side up and dust with confectioners' sugar. Keep in an airtight container or freeze.


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Madeleines (Bon Appetit, January 2000)

2 large eggs

2/3 cup sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/2 teaspoon grated lemon peel

pinch salt

1 cup all-purpose flour

10 tablespoons (1 1/4 sticks) unsalted butter, melted, cooled slightly

powdered sugar

Preheat oven to 375°F. Generously butter and flour pan for large madeleines (about 3x1 1/4 inches). Using electric mixer, beat eggs and 2/3 cup sugar in large bowl just to blend. Beat in vanilla, lemon peel and salt. Add flour; beat just until blended. Gradually add cooled melted butter in steady stream, beating just until blended.

Spoon 1 tablespoon batter into each indentation in pan. Bake until puffed and brown, about 16 minutes. Cool 5 minutes. Gently remove from pan. Repeat process, buttering and flouring pan before each batch. (Can be made 1 day ahead.)

Dust cookies with powdered sugar.

Carol