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Honey and Vanilla Madeleines Recipe

March 21, 2017 by Holly Baker 10 Comments

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A madeleines recipe is lovely for Mother’s Day, wedding showers, tea parties, baby showers, and birthdays too. These cake-like cookies are baked in a Madeleine tray. These honey and vanilla madeleines are light and fluffy.

vanilla honey madeleines recipe

A madeleines recipe for Honey and Vanilla Madeleines is a perfect choice to have with a cup of tea. Light and fluffy, they are a mix between a cookie and a cake. Honey and vanilla madeleines make any occasion a special one.

The perfect treat to enjoy with tea

The #CreativeCookieExchange offers a theme this month that I enjoy nearly every day: cookies that are enjoyed best with a cup of tea. If your afternoon (or morning) snack has coffee as the star rather than tea, you’ll find some sweets in our recipe list that are right up your alley. This group is not fussy and neither are these madeleines: they fit in with coffee, tea, and milk or any variation thereof.

The madeleine pan

You will need the traditional madeleine baking pan to create the easily recognized shape of the madeleines.

British Tea Time Recipes

Since we are talking about foods for teatime I had to go my ever-reliable favorite website for British baking: BBC Good Food. Yes, madeleines recipes may have originated in France but the British have perfected tea to an art form.

Other tea time dessert ideas include jam thumbprint cookies, a peach Bundt cake with a raspberry swirl, and any cake or cookie topped with this lemon curd made in the Vitamix.

What is a madeleine?

A madeleine is a cross between a cookie and a cake. It’s a type of French butter cake that is a sponge cake. Each individual sponge cake is baked in its on mould in a madeleine pan which is a little like a muffin pan. 

This vanilla madeleine recipe takes the madeleine’s standard sponge cake and accents it with honey and vanilla. I doubled the amounts of both honey and vanilla so that their delicate flavors didn’t get lost in the finished product. You’ll see that the honey and vanilla madeleines brown to a golden color very nicely.

The side you see in the photos is actually the underside (the part touching the pan when baking). The tops are still a lighter shade of yellow. They are soft and bounce back to the touch. I like the contrast of the two sides and the baking pan moulds give these little sponge cakes a particular elegance that makes them perfect for teatime.

You’ll find the original recipe  on BBC Good Food.

Do madeleines need icing?

Madeleines are beautifully little cakes to serve just as they are without any icing or frosting. You may add a dusting of confectioners sugar for a touch of added sweetness and decoration. Because these delicate treats are a cross between cookies and cake, they don’t fall into either category. 

Yield: 12

Honey Vanilla Madeleines

Honey Vanilla Madeleines

A madeleines recipe is lovely for Mother’s Day, wedding showers, tea parties, baby showers, and birthdays too. These cake-like cookies are baked in a Madeleine tray. These honey and vanilla madeleines are light and fluffy.

Prep Time 10 minutes
Bake Time 12 minutes
Total Time 22 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1 cup flour
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 2 eggs, separate yolk and whites
  • 2 tablespoons honey
  • 2 tablespoons vanilla
  • 3 tablespoons confectioners sugar (optional)

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly spray your madeleine pan with baking spray.

Mix the sugar, butter, 2 egg yolks, honey and vanilla in a bowl with an electric mixer. Fold in the flour. Separately whip the egg whites until fluffy and somewhat stiff. Gently fold them into the batter.

Fill the madeleine pan then bake for 10-12 minutes or until lightly golden brown. Let cool in the pan briefly before moving to a wire rack. Dust with confectioners sugar if you wish.

Notes

Recipe source: BBC Good Food site

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

12

Serving Size:

1

Amount Per Serving:Calories: 178 Total Fat: 9g Saturated Fat: 5g Trans Fat: 0g Unsaturated Fat: 3g Cholesterol: 67mg Sodium: 74mg Carbohydrates: 21g Fiber: 0g Sugar: 13g Protein: 2g
This data is provided by Nutritionix and is an estimate only.
© BBC Good Food
Cuisine: French / Category: Cakes
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Honey and Vanilla Madeleines recipe

It’s Tea Time!

Cookies in the afternoon at “teatime” are a long held tradition, whether served with tea, coffee or even milk for an after school snack. No matter what you serve with your cookies, we’ve got a great list for you to choose from!

Baking Tools used in this Madeleines Recipe

You really can’t make authentic madeleines without the traditional madeleine pan. This pan is like a muffin pan in that it offers a space (or indentation) for each cake. The madeleine tray gives a rippled bottom finish to each cake and the tops will be slightly domed and beautifully browned.

Here is a Madeleine Pan that is sold on Amazon. 

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Creative Cookie Exchange– a virtual baking group

You can also use us as a great resource for cookie recipes.

Be sure to check out our Pinterest Board and our monthly posts (you can find all of them here at The Spiced Life). You will be able to find them the first Tuesday after the 15th of each month! Also, if you are looking for inspiration to get in the kitchen and start baking, check out what all of the hosting bloggers have made:

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Comments

  1. Karen

    March 21, 2017 at 10:02 pm

    These are so beautiful Holly!

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    • Holly F

      March 22, 2017 at 7:32 pm

      Thanks, Karen! They disappeared quickly!

  2. dirtgirl

    March 21, 2017 at 10:53 pm

    Great easy recipe. Couldn’t find either of my madeleine pans, but used my patty pans instead and made 18. Lowered temp to 180C and they turned out beautifully.

    Reply
    • Holly F

      March 22, 2017 at 7:31 pm

      Glad they turned out so well! I find BBC Good Food recipes very reliable.

  3. Sarah Reid, CNP (@jo_jo_ba)

    March 23, 2017 at 7:52 pm

    I’m so jealous! Madeline pans are tricky to find and expensive here, but theyre soooo pretty!

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  4. Felice

    March 25, 2017 at 12:25 pm

    I love the BBC website too, as well as their magazines. Madeleines are one of my favorites, and I don’t make them as often as I should. Thanks for the inspiration to pull out my pan and make a batch.

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  5. Mary G. Rutledge

    April 17, 2017 at 3:22 am

    I’ve tried many recipes in the past but could never get the fluffiness …. until I tried this one! Thank you ! It reminded me of the madeleines I used to have after school 😀

    Reply
    • Holly F

      April 30, 2017 at 4:38 pm

      So glad to hear that, Mary.

  6. Maria Molina

    May 13, 2018 at 9:23 pm

    I’m just learning how to bake. I’m overly ambitious and have had more failures than successes. But this one was perfect! I was a little too eager and took them out 2 minutes early. But the taste! I had one and had to remind myself to not eat more. This was easy and simple. Thank you!!!

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    • Holly Baker

      May 14, 2018 at 1:04 pm

      Hi Maria, that is wonderful to hear how successful you were with this recipe! Keep it up!

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