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Chocolate madeleines

Simple and delicious, goes very well with tea or coffee.

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Last modified on: March 10^th 2019

Keywords for this recipe:Madeleines Chocolate Marcel proust Small cake Tea

For 60 madeleines, you will need:

1 6.2 oz Noisette butter
2 6.6 oz dark chocolate
3 7.0 oz icing sugar
4 4.4 oz flour
5 6.4 oz ground almonds
6 6 egg whites
7 1 tablespoon honey

Change these quantities to make: 20 madeleines 30 madeleines 60 madeleines 120 madeleines 180 madeleines

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Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Resting	Cooking	Start to finish
20 min.	50 min.	5 min.	1 hour 15 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 5 min.

Melt 6.6 oz dark chocolate broken in pieces in a bain-marie then leave to cool.

Stage 2 - 1 min.

Sieve together 7.0 oz icing sugar and 4.4 oz flour.

Stage 3 - 2 min.

Add 6.4 oz ground almonds and mix.

Stage 4 - 2 min.

Beat 6 egg whites about one minute, just until they become slightly frothy, not like for meringue.

Stage 5 - 5 min.

Add the mix of flour, sugar and almonds to the beaten egg-whites, beat again to mix.

Add 6.2 oz Noisette butter and beat again to mix thoroughly.

Stage 6 - 30 min.

Add melted chocolate, 1 tablespoon honey, and beat again to mix thoroughly.

Refrigerate mixture for 30 minutes.

Stage 7 - 10 min.

Pour mixture into moulds, using a forcing bag (easier) or a tablespoon, then put back in fridge for 30 minutes.

Stage 8 - 20 min.

Preheat oven to 150°C ou 302°F and cook for about 20 minutes.

Turn out onto a wire rack to cool. Serve at room temperature (not too warm).

Keeping

Several days in a closed metal box.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
3,583 Kcal or 15,001 Kj	36 gr	368 gr	248 gr
179 %	14 %	35 %	38 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
407 Kcal or 1,704 Kj	4 gr	42 gr	28 gr
20 %	2 %	4 %	4 %

Per madeleines
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
60 Kcal or 251 Kj	1 gr	6 gr	4 gr
3 %	<1 %	1 %	1 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 60 madeleines : 5.23 €
Per madeleines : 0.09 €

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Note : These prices are only approximate.

Source

From Joël Robuchon.

This recipe uses (among others)

	Icing sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Pistachio "Financiers", Chocolate almond cookies, Finger biscuits, Walnut short bread, Cigarettes Russes (Piroulines), ... All
	Noisette butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Chestnut cake, Grapefruit moelleux, Pistachio madeleines, Financier batter, Pistachio "Financiers", ... All
	Dark chocolate: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Chocolate muffins, Chocolate Chantilly , Mousse with two chocolates, Chocolate eclairs, Half-cooked chocolate cake with raspberry coulis, ... All
	Ground almonds: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Macaronade mixture, Checkerboard biscuits, Caribbean upside-down cake, Nanou's apple and almond cake, Buckwheat almond biscuits, ... All

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