Recipes · inspired by Madeleines in the manga Kitchen Princess, volume 7
Quick Lemon Madeleines
Little shell-shaped butter cakes with lemon zest. Bake in a madeleine pan, or in a mini muffin tin.
- Ready in
- 15 min
- Ingredients
- 6
- Makes
- about 12
- Level
- easy
Kitchen Princess is a manga by Natsumi Ando and Miyuki Kobayashi in which every chapter is named after a dish. This is our own quick, family-friendly version of that dish, not the recipe from the book.
Bakeries often chill madeleine batter for hours to get the famous bump on top. Ours skip that for speed: they come out a bit flatter but just as buttery.
Make it a learning moment: madeleines are shaped like scallop shells. Find a real shell (or a picture) and compare the ridges.
Ingredients
Steps
Kids a child can do this step Grown-up hot, sharp or tricky
- Grown-up Heat the oven to 375°F (190°C) and butter a madeleine pan or mini muffin tin.
- Kids Whisk the egg and sugar until pale and a little foamy.
- Kids Stir in the flour, baking powder and lemon zest, then the melted butter.
- Kids Spoon the batter into the pan, about 3/4 full.
- Grown-up Bake 9 to 10 minutes, until the edges are golden and the middles spring back.
