I kinda got bored and I decided to learn how to bake me some madeleine cakes. After googling around for some receipes I decided they all were pretty easy to make so I adapted one from a few others that I saw.

List of ingredients

• 100g flour
• 100g granulated sugar
• 100g unsalted butter
• 1/2 tea spoon of baking powder
• 1/2 tea spoon of vanilla extract
• 3 large eggs
• zest of a lemon (I guess as much or as little as you want)
• pinch of salt

Procedure

1. Melt the butter
2. Sift the flour, salt and baking powder together
3. While butter is melting beat, the eggs and sugar for about 3-5mins in a bowl, stop when the mixture has gain about 2-3x in volume, add lemon zest and vanilla extract.
4. Add some flour to the egg mixture bit by bit with a spatula or else you will lose the air in the egg mixture.
5. Spoon some of the egg, sugar and flour mixture into the melted butter, mix up the butter and the small amount of egg, sugar and flour mixture together. Add this back into the main bowl of egg, sugar and flour mixture. Fold it all together.
6. Leave the mixture to sit in the fridge for about 30-60mins
7. Preheat oven to ~190-200c.
8. Spoon the mixture into a greased up and floured baking tin, or else use those little paper cup things so you don't need to grease and flour the tin. Make sure you fill each unit up to about 90%.
9. Bake for about 12mins or so.
10. Remove from tin and let it cool

Conclusion

I made a mess of my first batch in terms of filling up my tins too much so they spilt out and I also baked them a little too long so they were more like cookies than cakes. The cakes tasted the way they are supposed to, so that is a good thing. Photo's to follow in my next attempt to make them.