Instructions for preparing French cookies

If you have almost no free time, and you want to pamper your home with tasty and healthy pastries, I suggest baking the legendary. French Madeleine biscuits. It is prepared for about 15-20 minutes, and from the simplest and most affordable ingredients.

“Madelenki” is made from a delicate dough, which is a mixture of butter, sugar, eggs, flour with the traditional addition of lemon peel or honey, as in this recipe. To make cakes even more tender, powdered sugar can be used instead of sugar.





The only condition is special forms for baking in the form of sea scallops. But if you don't have them, don't be upset! Cookies can be prepared in cupcake molds, the taste will not change. It's just going to be a slightly different shape.

"Madeleine" cookies today editorial "Site" They will tell you how to make French. Madeleine cookies. Favourite dessert of European nobility!





The ingredients
  • 120g flour
  • 3 eggs
  • 110g butter
  • 100g powdered sugar
  • 1/4 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp honey
  • pinch






Preparation
  1. In a convenient container, mix eggs with sugar and honey. Whip with a wreath for 5 minutes.



  2. Add flour and baking powder, stir until a homogeneous mass is obtained.



  3. Melt the butter, cool it, and then add it to the dough. Also add a pinch of salt and stir.



  4. Cover the dough with a small piece of food film and put it in the refrigerator for 1 hour.



  5. Shape a little butter, sprinkle flour. Place the dough so that it fills the form by 2/3.



  6. Bake the cookies for 1 minute at a temperature of 240 degrees, then reduced to 200 degrees and bakes for another 4 minutes, then reduced again to 180 degrees and bakes for another 5 minutes. The cookie should turn a little brown and a convex bump will appear. Ready cookies cool on the grille and, if desired, sprinkle powdered sugar.



  7. That's it, Madeleine biscuits Ready. Bon appetit!





I also suggest you learn another great recipe for French cookies "Sable". "Sable" means "sand", and its feature is a delicate and crumbly consistency. A wide variety of flavor additives can be added to this cookie.



The history of this cookie in the form of shells begins in the XVIII century. She is associated with a Polish king who gave a ball in the city of Commercy in Lorraine. On the eve of the ball, the confectioner fell ill, and the guests risked being left without sweets. However, the situation was saved by a smart and quick servant, who hastily prepared shell-shaped cookie. The dessert made a splash among the guests! It was decided to name the cookie by the name of the girl - Madeleine.





Well, the daughter of this king, Maria Leschinskaya, after becoming Queen of France, the wife of Louis XV, passed the recipe "Madeleine" to the confectioners of Versailles. So the cookie "Madeleine" appeared on the table of King Louis, and then on the tables of all European nobles.

To date, the popularity of this cookie has remained the same. Be sure to try making it. The delicate taste of this pastry will not leave you indifferent!