#madelaines

I’ve been walking around all morning with a crying baby strapped to my chest. Baking was the only solution I could think of to keep me sane.

A while ago I’ve tried to bake savory madeleines, not a huge success. So today I decided to go for a more traditional recipe; Lemon and poppy seed madeleines.

Ingredients:

125gr butter | 2 eggs | 150gr sugar | 150gr flour | 1tsp vanilla extract | salt | lemon zest | poppy seeds

Melt the butter au bain-marie. Set aside to cool.

Mix the sugar and eggs with a mixer. The mixture has to triple in size. This will take at least 6 minutes with a mixer on middle speed.

Sift the flour into the mixture and gently mix with a spatula. After, add the cooled butter. Finally, add the vanilla extract, a pinch of salt, the zest of a lemon and some poppy seeds to the mixture. Put in the fridge for about 2 hours.

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MADELEINES

First, let me clarify something:

* Cupcake: is just a tiny cake. Put cake batter baked into a tiny container, roughly the size of a cup and you've got yourself a cupcake. Icing/creamy topping as decoration is optional. Origin --> USA

* Muffin: Heavier and more compact than the other two, it comes in almost any flavor from chocolate with chocolate chips to carrot, cheddar and green onions. You usually don't want to beat the mix too much. Origin --> USA

* Madeleines: Light and fluffy because you beat the batter for a few minutes. Made with oil and a few other ingredients with little variation. No savory version or toppings. Origin --> Spain (adapted from the French shell-shaped homonymous treats)

So, Bree and I baked a batch of madeleines a couple of months ago... and a few months before that, for her birthday at the preschool homeroom... and a few months before that, at the old apartment. In short, this is something we do from time to time. It's fun, it's easy and it's incredibly healthy (unlike muffins and cupcakes). 

They only have flour, sugar, milk, a tiny bit of oil and a few drops of vanilla extract and orange blossom extract in them, so they're as healthy as it gets. Besides, unlike the store-bought cookies, I actually know what's in them, so I can closely monitor what she eats and make sure it's as healthy as possible. 

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