These little spongy shell-shaped cakes have many stories associated with it’s origin – from a servant girl named Madeleine to Queen Marie (not the infamous Marie-Antoinette but the wife of King Louis XV). However it was made famous by Marcel Proust, the well-known French novelist in his autobiographical novel Remembrance of Things Past. In this he wrote: ‘She sent for one of those squat plump little cakes called “petites madeleines,” which look as though they had been molded in the fluted valve of a scallop shell … I raised to my lips a spoonful of the tea in which I had soaked a morsel of the cake……An exquisite pleasure invaded my senses …’
Rose Madeleines with Cardamom Drizzle submitted by Jayofbaking