Brown Butter Almond Madeleines

4.61 from 53 reviews

Brown Butter Almond Madeleines

Almond Madeleines, are they a cookie or a cake? I don’t care! I only know that they’re so easy to make and even easier to eat.

Prep Time30

Bake Time8

Total Time38

Servings:24 cookies

Ingredients

6 oz unsalted butter
2 ½ oz all purpose flour (½ cup, see note)
2 oz almond flour (½ cup)
⅛ teaspoon table salt
3 large eggs
1 large yolk
5 oz granulated sugar (½ cup plus 2 tablespoons)
¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
½ teaspoon almond extract

Instructions

Melt 6 oz unsalted butter in a small saucepan. Continue heating the butter until it foams, bubbles and the milk solids fall to the bottom of the pan. Allow the milk solids to brown. Pour the browned butter into a small dish, leaving the browned milk solids in the pan.
Reserve a tablespoon of the browned butter to grease the Madeleine pan. Set aside the remaining butter to cool but not solidify.
Whisk together 2 ½ oz all purpose flour, 2 oz almond flour, ⅛ teaspoon table salt and set aside.
Whisk 3 large eggs, 1 large yolk, 5 oz granulated sugar, ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract and ½ teaspoon almond extract until the eggs are pale, aerated and leave a "ribbon" when the whisk is drawn through the mix. Fold in the flour with a balloon whisk. Fold in the browned butter. Set the batter aside to rest for 1 hour
While the batter is resting, preheat oven to 400 °F. and brush a madeleine pan with reserved butter then coat with flour.
Place a heaping tablespoon of batter into each cookie mold.
Bake 8-10 minutes until golden brown and the center springs back when pressed. Best eaten slightly warm or within a couple of hours of baking.

Notes

If measuring the flour by volume use the “dip & sweep” method. That is, dip the measuring cup into the flour bin, overfill it, then sweep away the excess.

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