Madeleines

Name: Madeleines
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 12
Ingredients: 150 g Dark chocolate; 80 g Butter or margarine; 5 Eggs (size M); 125 g Icing sugar; 4 TABLESPOONS Honey; 175 g Flour; 2 TEASPOONS Baking Powder; 7-10 Tbsp Fat and flour

AUTHOR
Xavier Baldwin

DIFFICULTY
very easy

RATING

COOK TIME
20 mins

TOTAL TIME
20 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 12

150 g Dark chocolate
80 g Butter or margarine
5 Eggs (size M)
125 g Icing sugar
4 TABLESPOONS Honey
175 g Flour
2 TEASPOONS Baking Powder
7-10 Tbsp Fat and flour

Directions

1
Roughly chop the chocolate. Melt fat and chocolate in a bowl over a warm water bath. Remove from the heat and let it cool down at least lukewarm
2
Separate eggs. Beat the egg yolks and 100 g sugar with the whisk of the hand mixer until light and creamy. Stir in chocolate butter and honey. Mix flour and baking powder and stir in briefly. Beat the egg whites until stiff, adding 25 g icing sugar. Fold the beaten egg whites into the dough
3
Grease and flour hollows of a Madelein plate. Pour the dough into the hollows and brush it gently flat. Bake Madeleines in a preheated oven (electric cooker: 200 °C/ convection oven: 175 °C/ gas: level 3) for approx. 10 minutes.
4
Remove the baking tray from the oven, let it cool down a little and remove the madeleines from the trays. Let the madeleines cool down on a cake rack