I was so lucky to found this Madeleines mould at Daiso but sadly i only bought one. I should have buy 2 and I would not find it again at Daiso even i went to different outlet to source for it. One mould can only make 5 madeleines and end up i take up alot of time baking one batch after another.
I use the recipe from Home Bake, Eric Lanlard book where i bought at Popular. And yesterday i bought another 2 more book from MPH because i purchase the voucher at Groupon.
I would said this is a quick and simple recipe, when the first time i saw this recipe and it remind me of the Nyonya Kueh Bolu. They are slightly different in ingredients. Medeleines taste more rich and dense. As for the Kueh Bolu taste more fluffy and dry. My mom and niece doesn't like the medeleines i make because they said the lemon taste very strong. Opps.. next time i will make other flavour. But hey my elder sister said is delicious..
Ingredient:
- 90gm unsalted butter plus 2 tbsp melted unsalted butter for greasing
- 90gm plain flour, plus extra for dusting
- 2 tsp clear honey
- 40gm icing sugar, plus extra for dusting
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 2 eggs
- 1 large lemon grated zest
- Preheat the oven to 180C (fan 160C) / 350F.
- Prepare a madeleine mould by brushing with the melted butter. Get in there and make sure you reach all the ridges. Dust with flour and invert the pan, tapping out any excess flour.
- Melt the butter and the honey together in a small saucepan, and leave to cool.
- Sift the flour, icing sugar and baking powder together into a large bowl.
- Stir in the cooled butter and honey mixture. Add the eggs and stir in, taking care not to over-mix. Fold in the lemon zest.
- Pour the batter into a piping bag and pipe each mould two-thirds to three quarters full.
- Bake the madeleines in the preheated oven for about 10 minutes or until risen and golden.
- Leave to cool for serveral minutes before turning out on to a wire rack and allowing to become completely cool.
