This recipe for English Madeleines is a classic vintage recipe from the 1930’s and 1940’s. English Madeleines differ from their French cousins, as they aren’t baked in a madeleine shell mould. These dainty little sponge cakes are baked in dariole moulds. Once cool, the cakes are then brushed with warmed jam (usually seedless raspberry jam) before being coated with desiccated coconut. The icing on these lovely little cakes is a glacé cherry which is popped on top.
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These delectable old-fashioned cakes would be the perfect accompaniment for a traditional afternoon tea, with a teapot of freshly brewed tea, assorted finger sandwiches and freshly baked scones with jam and cream.
Although Karen, of Lavender & Lovage, used vintage dariole moulds from the 1950’s for this, you can still buy these moulds from most kitchenware shops, or online.
English Madeleines Recipe
Prep: 45 minutes (including decorating)
Cook: 10 minutes
Serves: makes 8 to 10 Madeleines
Ingredients
Cakes
Decoration
Method
1. Preheat oven to 200C/180C Fan/400F/ Gas Mark 6.
2. Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
3. Add the flour, baking powder, eggs and vanilla extract to the creamed butter and sugar mixture.
4. Beat for 2 minutes with a hand-held mixer until well combined.
5. Grease the moulds with melted butter and divide the cake batter between the moulds.
6. Place the moulds on a baking tray and bake in the preheated oven for 8 to 10 minutes until well risen and golden brown.
7. Remove from the oven and allow to cool in the moulds for 5 minutes.
8. Remove carefully and transfer them to a cooling rack.
9. Once cooled, trim the bases if they are domed, so they sit flat. Put the desiccated coconut in a wide bowl.
10. Heat the jam until it is warm, then brush the jam over the sides and the tops of the madeleines.
11. Roll them in the desiccated coconut, and then top each madeleine with half a glacé cherry.
12. Serve with a pot of tea, sandwiches and scones as part of afternoon tea, using Green Prunus Teaware and Tableware or other existing Burleigh you have at home.
Browse our previous blogs to find more recipes from Karen or see more from Lavender & Lovage on her Instagram and website.
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