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September 18, 2016

Rose Madeleines with Cardamom Drizzle

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Rose Madeleines with Cardamom Drizzle

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 …’

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Rose Madeleines with Cardamom Drizzle submitted by Jayofbaking

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Filed Under: Breakfast & Brunch, Cakes, Ethnic & Regional Foods, French Cuisine, Indian, Muffins, Pastries, Sweets & Desserts Tagged With: cake, cardamom, dessert, drizzle, France, icing, jayofbaking, madeleines, petit cakes, rose, rose extract, royal icing, shell

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