Madeleines are simple sponge cake-like cookies - so simple that you probably have all of the typical madeleine recipe ingredients in your house right now: eggs, salt, sugar, flour and butter. The only thing that you may not have is a
madeleine pan
.
Isn't the madeleine a snotty cookie to require her own pan? But, like a little girl in blue jeans and ratty T-shirt who puts on a princess hat and becomes royalty, the madeleine pan makes this simple cookie regal (more importantly, you can't make madeleines without it).
Get one (make sure it's non-stick - it makes it so easy) for the baker on your Christmas list.
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