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Understanding the Context

The Allrecipes Test Kitchen staff are a team of culinary pros who make and vet recipes using only equipment you'd find in a home kitchen. The term madeleine, used to describe a small cake, seems to appear for the first time in France in the middle of the 18th century. In 1758, a French retainer of Lord Southwell, an Irish Jacobite refugee in France, was said to prepare "cakes à la Madeleine and other small desserts". Madeleines start with a sponge-like batter, called a genoise in European baking, and get most of their lift and volume from beaten eggs.

Key Insights

The base of our desserts is usually creamed butter and sugar. With madeleines, however, beating the eggs and sugar together is the most crucial and particular step. Madeleines are small, shell-shaped sponge cakes from France. They’re golden on the outside, soft and moist inside, and famous for their signature hump that forms as they bake. Madeleines are petite, bite-sized French sponge cakes that are as delightful to the eye as they are to the mouth.

Final Thoughts

This beautiful classic recipe for these mini-butter cakes was taught to me by JB, our resident French Chef. With their signature shell shape, they make for a lovely afternoon tea or a pretty finish to any meal!