Madeleine, french pastries.

Recipe taken from ricettedacoinquiline.wordpress.com by Ilaria

The madeleine french pastries became famous around the world for a literary work, In Search of Lost Time, Proust.

I personally look at every time in the library, but I have not either have the courage to buy it or to read it!

Also because I’ve never before liked them: commercial ones have a chemical taste.

You will understand my surprise to discover that in fact they are really delicious! They have literally conquered me! So they are recommended.

Ingredients:

x24 sweets

• 3 eggs
• 100 grams of sugar
• 200 grams of flour 00
• 150 g butter
• The zest of a lemon edible
• 1/2 tablespoon baking powder for cakes

Preparation time:

15 minutes

Rest time:

1 hour

Cooking time:

10 minutes

Preparation:

Break the eggs into a bowl and beat them vigorously with the sugar, until a clear mixture.

Just melt the butter and add the eggs, then the flour, baking powder and grated lemon zest.

Take the dough rest in the fridge for an hour.

Preheat oven to 220 degrees.

Fill the small molds (buttered and floured) with the dough, bake for 5 minutes, then lower the temperature to 180 degrees and continue for another 5 minutes.

Turn out the madeleine and let them cool thoroughly on a wire rack for cakes.

Tip:

to have a well puffed madleine, prepare the dough the day before and let it sit overnight in the fridge.

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