There were a few madeleine recipes from my blog before. However, most of them, the images are now broken and showing blank right now, which I will explain why in the end of this post. The madeleines I've made before were more of a simple approach. Meaning that I mix the dry ingredients with wet ingredients, with no waiting time, simply pour the batter to the mold then bake right away.
This time, I'm going to try something that requires a bit more patience, with extra waiting time for the batter to rest, and see if it'll make any significant difference in texture and consistency.
Two-color madeleines -
Ingredients (about 12 pieces)?
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
- 3 tablespoons unsweetened dark cocoa powder
Simple honey glaze:
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1 teaspoon drinkable water
How?
Remove the eggs from the fridge and use it when they warm up to room temperature. Melt the butter in a lowered heat oven, just to the point it resembles melted ice cream consistency.
Sift 1 cup of flour, 1 teaspoon of baking powder, and 1/2 teaspoon of fine sea salt to a bowl. Whisk till blended.
Prepare a stand mixer with whisk attachment. Simply use the big bowl attached, break in two room temperature eggs. Whisk under medium speed and slowly add in 1/2 cup of granulated sugar, a little bit at a time.
Switch to higher speed and whisk till doubled in volume. It can take few minutes.
Take out the bowl and mix in 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract. Also pour in sifted flour mixture, half at a time. Fold with a spatula till incorporated.
Evenly divide the batter in half to separate bowls. Leave one batter as it is. As for the other batter, sift in 3 tablespoons of cocoa powder and mix till incorporated. Cover both bowls with cling foil and let them rest in room temperature for about 30 minutes.
Back to the melted butter, save about 2 tablespoons on the side, which will be used in brushing the madeleine pan.
For the remaining butter, evenly divide that to each batter. It might seem too buttery or too wet in the beginning. Just go ahead and mix till smooth, the batter will start to take in or more so absorb the liquid butter. Covered with cling foil and let both batter rest again for another 30 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit/200 degrees Celsius. Prepare two small Ziploc bags, scoop each batter to each bag. Seal and made a small cut on the corner as our piping bags. Simply use piping bags if available.
Brush the madeleine pan with saved melted butter. Carefully fill the mold with half of the plain batter and half of the chocolate batter. I tend to overfill the space, but the madeleines will turn out fine still. Tap the pan, like dropping the pan down to the countertop to help even out the batter. Do that a few times.
Into the oven and bake for 8 to 10 minutes, or till the edge turns slightly golden brown. You can also check by sticking a toothpick to the center and see if it comes out clean. But usually if the edges start to brown, the madeleines should be ready, judging from my past experiences.
Remove the madeleine pan from heat and let it cool for couple minutes.
Remove the madeleines from the mold to a cooling rack.
You can serve as it is, or brush the top with some simple honey glaze. The glaze can be done in no time by mixing 1 tablespoon of honey with 1 teaspoon of drinkable water, a few drops if you prefer a thicker glaze consistency. Brush the glaze on madeleines. Wait till the glaze sets then ready to serve.
I personally enjoy the chocolate side even more, so when I eat these madeleines, I tend to bite the plain part first then savor the chocolate flavor in the end. Guess I'll just have to make full on double chocolate madeleines in the future and write a recipe about it.
About the extra waiting time, I think it was well worth the wait. This batch of madeleines was slightly more moisturized then the ones I've made before. Also a wee bit more buttery in taste too. However, it does require some extra work instead of my old blend and bake method. Give and take, if the madeleines are going to be dipped or covered in extra sauce, go with the easier route. If you would like to enjoy the madeleines without much "decors" on top, perhaps give this "waiting method" a try and find out which one you prefer the most?
By the way, I was checking through some of the older posts and found out that all the images were broken, like they are not showing at all. The reason is that I used Photobucket for my earlier blog images, but their service has become extremely unreliable these past few years. Besides reliability, the storage fee has gone up to a point that I think it's totally not worth the money for the service I get.
Even though I don't like finding any broken images on my blog, but since most of these posts were from at least a year ago, I've decided just say goodbye to Photobucket once and for all. I've got (hopefully) better recipes and reviews nowadays. So the old entries, should just let it go instead of paying again for worse than mediocre image hosting service just for my pictures to show again. Imgur, another image hosting platform, works like a charm on the other hand.
Other western dessert recipes (with photos not yet jeopardized by Photobucket):
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