MATCHA MADELEINE'S: your new favourite sweet-treat
- annabelghome
- Oct 16, 2024
- 2 min read
Recipes | Wellness
FRIDAY, October 11, 2024
Constantly finding new ways to add matcha into my diet.
It probably comes as no surprise that I am a HUGE fan of matcha - matcha lattes, matcha cookies, and, now apparently, matcha madeleine's.
I had wanted to try making madeleine's for a while, but never really fancied spending the time making plain vanilla madeleine's, that I could buy in the store. However, I was in London last weekend, and stopped off at my absolute favourite matcha hub, Jenki, and saw their matcha cookies. This made me wonder if I could try adding matcha to madeleine's!
Ingredients (for 12 madeleine's):
O 2 eggs
O 100g caster sugar
O 1 teaspoon honey
O vanilla extract
O 100g self-raising flour
O pinch of salt
O 100g melted butter
O 100g white chocolate
O matcha powder
Method:
heat the oven to 210C/190C fan and butter the madeleine's tin.
beat the eggs, sugar, honey and vanilla extract together until pale and fluffy (top tip: I started off using a hand whisk and quickly gave up. The electric whisk then took me 15 minutes to get the eggs to the right consistency, so don't even attempt to use a hand whisk if you have the electric whisk option!).
add the flour and a pinch of salt, and fold into the mixture.
mix in the melted butter.
add a teaspoon of matcha powder and stir in well.
spoon the mixture into the tin and bake for 8-10 minutes.
place madeleine's on the cooling rack and melt the chocolate.
mix a half teaspoon of matcha powder into the white chocolate, and thinly line the madeleine tins again with this chocolate.
press the cooled madeleine's (these cool quickly from my experience) back into the tins, until the chocolate is forming a thin layer beneath the madeleine cakes.
place the madeleine tray into the fridge until the chocolate has hardened, and then carefully pry out the madeleine's.
I was pretty apprehensive about these, particularly getting the chocolate decoration to work. However ... they turned out amazingly! They didn't taste too matcha-y, but that does mean that if someone isn't a huge matcha fan, they can still indulge. The matcha cuts through the sweetness a bit, so these are not too rich. I definitely overcooked this batch, as I left them in for 15 minutes (oops!). However, with the oven preheated, this does show that 8-10 minute cook time is accurate.