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For some reason I have been thinking of sweets lately, which is highly unusual for me as I am normally a savory person. Perhaps I should do a glucose challenge test. I found these Madeline baking tray sitting in the cupboard so I went on an hunt online for recipes. I came across these on 101cookbooks. My recipe below has been slightly modified. These Madelines turned out pretty well and go exceptionally well with a Macchiato.

Madelines:

• 100gm butter + extra to grease pan
• 90gm plain flour + bit extra to dust pan
• 80gm sugar
• 4 large eggs
• zest of 2 lemons
• half vanilla pod

Firstly, preheat oven to 180deg Celsius and well butter the pan. Dust the pan with flour and tap out the excess.

Make clarified butter: Melt the butter in a pan in low heat and watch it boil and turn sightly golden brown in colour. Take the butter off the heat and strain it into another container removing all the milk solids and wait until it cools to room temperature.

Scrape the vanilla seeds into the sugar. (You could save the used vanilla pod into a container filled with sugar to make vanilla sugar.)

Whisk the whole eggs in mixer at high speed until it forms silky pale meringue about 3-4mins. Slowly add the sugar with vanilla seeds into the egg while whisking at high speed and continue to whisk for another minute or two.

Sift the flour onto the egg mixture and add lemon zest then fold gently until mixed then add the cooled clarified butter into the egg/flour mixture. Fold again until all mixed until just mixed. Don’t over mix this mixture or it wont rise.

Spoon the mixture into the baking tray then bake for about 5-10 minutes depending on size. Watch it change colour very quickly.