Madeleines - French Recipe

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Let's hop over to France with Sonia to prepare the madeleines, the small shell-shaped cookies, perfect for a tea break or as a snack for your kids! *** Hi and welcome to the GialloZafferano kitchen, today we'll be preparing together the madeleines, the small soft shell-shaped cookies from France, ideal for breakfast or as a snack for your kids, who won't resist them. Let's see together what ingredients we'll need: • 1 cup (120 g) of flour • 5-6 drops of almond extract • salt • milk as needed • ½ cup (100 g) of sugar • 2 medium eggs • 3,5 oz (100 g) of butter • 1 ¾ tsp (8 g) of baking powder Let's prepare the madeleines together: In this bowl I've put the sugar, the baking powder and the flour, all well sifted. Here I've beaten the eggs... I've melted the butter and let it cool down, and here we have the milk, which we'll need to make the dough neither too liquid nor too thick. Now add the liquids to the powders. After blending everything, we'll put the dough in the fridge covered with cling film for at least an hour. You should get to this consistency, as you can see it's not too liquid and not too thick. I've added also the almond extract and as I said before we'll place everything in the fridge. Only in this way, after baking the madeleines, you'll get the characteristic small bump on top. So, now, in the fridge! 1 h -- fridge After taking out from the fridge, the dough has hardened so we can pour it into our mould for madeleines. My mould measures 3 by 2 inches, so you ...

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