Almond Madeleines

Name: Almond Madeleines
Yield: Makes 12
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 3 tablespoons, unbleached all-purpose flour; 3 tablespoons, cake flour; Pinch, kosher salt; 1/4 cup, ground almonds; 1 , large egg; 1/4 cup, granulated sugar; 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract; 1/4 teaspoon, almond extract; 4 tablespoons, unsalted butter, melted; 2 , large egg yolks

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated March/April 1996

Desserts or Baked Goods

French

We find the best-tasting recipe for these classic French cake-cookies--and discover how to keep them from sticking to the pan.

SERVESMakes 12

TIME40 minutes, plus 20 minutes cooling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

The first step of our madeleine recipe was to prepare for the last and most difficult step: getting the cookies out of the pan. We coated not just the inside of the molds but also the rims with a little melted butter and a dash of flour. Re...

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