Moderate Madeleines Cocoa Food

CHOCOLATE MADELEINES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375°F. To a small bowl, add the butter and melt in the microwave until completely liquid. Set aside to cool.
• To a medium bowl, sift and add the flour, baking cocoa, salt and baking powder. Stir everything together to combine. Set aside.
• In a large bowl, or the bowl of a stand mixer, beat the eggs and sugar together until thick and pale in color (about 1 minute). Add the vanilla extract and briefly mix to combine.
• You're going to want to add the dry ingredients and melted butter in alternating batches now. First add 1/3 of the dry ingredients to the batter, mix, then add half of the melted butter. Mix again. Add another 1/3 of the dry ingredients, mix, then add the remaining butter. Mix and add the remaining flour; give the batter 1 final mix. Stop to scrape the bottom of your mixing bowl with a rubber spatula to make sure everything is incorporated well. Don't over mix the batter; just give it a brief mix until everything is combined.
• Place your batter into your freezer for a few minutes. While the batter is chilling, heat 1 tablespoon of butter until it's just softened but not melted (about 5-7 seconds in the microwave). Brush the softened butter into your madeleine molds using a pastry brush. Use a sieve to dust flour into the buttered molds. Tap the pan upside down to get rid of any excess flour.
• Remove the batter from the freezer. The batter should be a little stiff - similar to a light mousse (see note). Use a tablespoon measuring spoon to scoop out a heaping spoonful of batter into each mold (you will want to use another spoon to help you actually scoop the batter out and into the mold). You want to fill each mold about 2/3 full; do not completely fill the molds as the madeleines will expand when they bake.
• Bake the madeleines for about 12 minutes, just until the madeleines spring back with a gentle press of the finger. Do not open the oven door before the 10 minute mark to check on your madeleines - this could cause their little signature "humps" to fall. Let the madeleines rest in the pan for a minute before gently nudging the madeleines out (using a knife) onto a wire cooling rack.
• Once the madeleines are cool, drizzle white chocolate over each madeleines, then garnish with sprinkles. (Alternatively, you can just dust them with powdered sugar.)

10 HOMEMADE CHOCOLATE DESSERTS, INCLUDING CHOCOLATE MADELEINES

Steps:

• Brush a madeleine baking pan with the melted butter.
• Put remaining butter and the chocolate in the top of a double boiler or in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of simmering water (be sure the water doesn't touch the bowl). Heat until chocolate and butter are almost melted, 3-5 minutes. Remove from heat and stir together until smooth.
• Sift powdered sugar, flour, cocoa and salt into a bowl using a mesh strainer.
• Beat egg whites in a large bowl with an electric mixer or by hand until very frothy, about 2 minutes. Stir in flour mixture until combined. Add chocolate mixture and mix with a spatula until well blended.
• Portion batter into the pan, filllig each cup with about 1 heaping tablespoon of batter. Chill in the refrigerator one hour. If your pan makes only 12 at a time, chill remaining batter in a bowl and bake in batches.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• Bake about 12 minutes, or until madeleines are springy to touch. Cool in pan 1 minute, then unmold madeleines onto a rack. Serve warm or at room temperature.

MODERATE MADELEINES (COCOA)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Beat the egg whites until frothy.
• Add the salt and beat to soft peaks.
• Slowly beat in the brown sugar; beat until stiff.
• Beat the egg yolks with the vanilla and fold them in.
• Mix the flour, baking powder and cocoa and sift them over the egg whites.
• Fold in.
• Drop onto very well buttered madeleine forms and bake for about 15 minutes at 350°F.
• (Watch them carefully after 10 minutes.).

MADELEINES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375. Beat sugar and eggs together until thoroughly blended. Add lemon rind and melted butter. Mix to blend. Sift together dry ingredients. Add all at once to egg mixture. Stir just to blend. Allow mix to sit at room temperature for approximately 10 minutes. While mix is resting, generously butter Madeleine molds. Spoon mix into molds, filling approximately 3/4 full. Bake approximately 15 minutes or until edges are golden brown. Turn over immediately onto cooling screen. Wipe out each mold cavity, rebutter and fill again until desired number or all mix is used. Store in airtight container until ready to use.;

MOCHA MADELEINES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6 and butter a 12-hole madeleine tin or a 24-hole mini madeleine tin. In a small pan, heat the butter over a medium heat until frothy and golden with a nutty aroma. Leave to cool.
• Sieve the flour and cocoa into a large bowl, then stir in the egg yolks, honey, coffee, melted butter and both sugars. Whisk the egg whites until stiff peaks form, then fold into the cocoa mix.
• Spoon the mixture into the tin, half-filling each of the madeleine holes. Chill in the fridge for 1 hr.
• Bake for 7 mins if using a 24-hole mini madeleine tin, or for 10-12 mins if using a 12-hole tin. Remove from the oven and leave to cool.
• Melt the white chocolate in the microwave in short bursts, then drizzle over the madeleines.

CHOCOLATE MADELEINES

Steps:

• 1. Sift together the flour, cocoa and the salt.
• 2. Place the eggs and the sugar in a large bowl or the bowl of an electric mixer and whisk until thick and lemon-colored. Fold in the flour, then melted butter.
• 3. Butter the madeleine pans, then spoon in the batter, filling each about three fourths full. Refrigerate the filled madeleine pans and the remaining batter for one hour.
• 4. Heat the oven to 425°F (220°C).
• 5. Bake the madeleines just until they are firm and puffed, about 7 minutes. Turn them immediately from the molds, wipe out the molds, let cool and continue baking the madeleines until all of the batter is used. The madeleines are best when eaten slightly warm or at room temperature the same day they are made.

CHOCOLATE MADELEINES

Steps:

• Sift together the flour, cocoa and salt.
• Place the eggs and the sugar in a large bowl or the bowl of an electric mixer and whisk until thick and lemon colored.
• Fold in the flour, then the melted butter.
• Butter the madeleine pans with a pastry brush, then spoon in the batter, filling each about 3/4 full.
• Refrigerate the filled madeleine pans and the remaining batter for one hour.
• Heat oven to 425 degrees.
• Bake the madeleines just until they are firm and puffed, about 7 minutes.
• Turn them immediately from the molds, wipe out the molds, let cool and continue baking the madeleines until all of the batter is used.
• The madeleines are best when eaten slightly warm or at room temperature the same day they are made.

CHOCOLATE MADELEINES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Brush madeleine pans well with 4 tablespoons softened butter; refrigerate 5 minutes.
• In a small heavy-bottomed saucepan, melt remaining 1/2 cup butter over medium heat. Continue to cook until butter turns golden brown, being careful not to let the butter burn. Remove from heat and strain through a fine mesh sieve into a small bowl; set aside.
• In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, whip eggs with granulated and brown sugars until light and thickened, 3 to 5 minutes. Add flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt, and stir on low speed until combined. Add vanilla and reserved browned butter; mix just until blended.
• Insert a 1/2-inch plain tip into a pastry bag and fill with batter. Pipe mounds of batter into prepared pans until each mold is full, mounding batter in the center of the molds but not filling to the edge. Alternatively, you can use a teaspoon to fill the molds with batter. Bake until madeleines are firm and a little mound is puffed up in the middle, 10 to 12 minutes. Madeleines are best eaten the same day they are baked.