You must understand that I'm really not a "gadget" person and am not really into buying things with a single purpose. But I was drawn to this interesting little pan.
A Madeleine pan
And I made madeleines. From a traditional recipe and, with my first taste, I fell in love with these little tea cakes.
I make them all the time -- not the traditional madeleine, however, but corn madeleines to eat with soup or a salad for lunch and I figured that any muffin recipe will make a good madeleine. I love the little shell shaped caked and they are fun to serve with lunch.
My favorite is orange/rosemary which is great for tea. Lemon basil madeleines are not bad, either.
But for a recent lunch with friends, the madeleines were lemon poppyseed.
That first pan -- bought for a mere $4 gets a lot of use. So much so that I bought another pan (at full price from Williams-Sonoma) so that I could make two batches at once when I had company.
The recipe for lemon poppyseed muffins which can be baked in muffin cups if you don't have a madeleine pan is an old favorite that I've had "forever". So much so that I don't remember where I got it. It makes great muffins -- or great madeleines.
Lemon Poppyseed Madeleines
2 cups flour
2 t. baking powder
1/4 t. salt
1/2 cup butter, at room temperature
1 t. finely grated lemon zest
2/3 cup sugar
2 large eggs, at room temperature
4 t. poppy seeds
1/2 cup milk
Preheat the oven to 375. Sift the flour, baking powder and salt into a medium bowl and set aside.
Cream the butter, zest and 2/3 cup sugar until light and fluffy with an electric mixer (about 2 min). Scrape down the sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well afer each addition. Remove the bowl from the mixer and stir in the poppyseeds.
Fold the flour in 3 parts into the butter mixture, alternating with the milk in 2 parts, until just combined. Take care not to overmix the batter. Divide the batter evenly into the muffin tin (which has been brushed with butter) Bake until golden. (about 25 min.)
NOTE: To bake the batter in a madeleine pan, you need to grease and flour the pan well. Put a tablespoon of batter into each shell (not too much -- the shell needs to look skimpy rather than too full). It doesn't take quite 25 min to bake the madeleines. And I use 1/2 of the recipe if I just make one pan of madeleines.
12 comments:
I have never made lemon poppy seed ones and I must admit they look so good.It's a favorite gadget of mine this little mould..but then again I am a gadget girl in the kitchen:) Thank you.
Oh, I love madeleines! I must admit, I never thought to use the pan for anything but the traditional-such a clever idea. Thank you Martha
xoxo Pattie
I'd love to have one of these pans! Thanks for the recipe!
xoxo
Jane
These sound like some delicious madeleines! Yum!
Love the madeline pan, they are so adorable! Your recipe looks very good, yummy!!!
I am loving the pictures on your sidebar, wow, beautiful kitchen!!!
Hugs,
Margaret B
I've never thought to use that pan for anything other than Madeleines. It does seem like such a waste to have a pan just for one thing. I can't wait to try these in it. Thank you for sharing the recipe. laurie
I do love madeleins! The first time I made them--well, help make them--was with Edna Lewis the wonderful chef and cookbook author. She was the resident chef at Middleton Plantation and I was asked to do some food styling with her. I drove out on a foggy morning through a bower of live oaks dripping with Spanish moss to meet with her at 5:30 a.m.. We made two pans of classic madeleins and several other delicious items. While we waited for the photographer, she made me breakfast and we ate on the terrace of that lovely old plantation. Thanks, Martha, for the memories!
I have never made madeleines before. Now I have to find a pan!!
Ulrike
What a lovely recipe, Martha. How nice you were able to find at least one bargain mold. I hope you are enjoying this glorious day.
That recipe sounds marvelous...must make this weekend..now, if only I could find that madelaine pan I misplaced months ago!!
One day, I'm going to buy a Madeleine pan! A lemon poppy seed version sounds delicious too.
I too have a Madeleines pan - but I've never used it. I bought it years ago in Belgium. The recipes you post are always winners, so I think I just might try this one - I'll let you know.
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