I am only sharing the dulce de leche recipe–for the other you will need to buy the book! You can bet my kids and I will be pulling this book out many, many times. And the recipes are simple–many (most?) of them starting with melted butter and not requiring a mixer. There is also a savory section and a section on garnishing–ganache dips, flavored whipped creams, turning them into sandwich cookies, etc. At the top of the list are Tahitian Vanilla Bean Cream Cheese Lemon Poppy Seed Pumpkin Spice Maple Granola Dark Chocolate Espresso Stuffed Bittersweet Chocolate Mint Chocolate Dipped Peanut Butter… you get the idea and I am getting hungry. I think they may have even snitched a few for breakfast–but I was asleep so that was on John’s watch!Īs far as the rest of the book? I only have about 98% of it bookmarked. The kids had over sleepovers and everyone loved these cookies. What about day 3 you ask? Ha! There was not even an evening for day 2. I even had trouble staying out of them on day 2, when the texture was no longer so buttery chewy. These Dulce de Leche Madeleines are above and beyond fantastic. I don’t know what made me think of it–maybe I was going through photos I needed to edit such as the Classic French Madeleines, and it reminded me that I still wanted to make a second recipe from Madeleines, I had wanted to all along, even had the recipe bookmarked, because I figured that to truly judge a single subject cookbook I ought to make the basic version and a gussied up version of its subject matter.And I remembered how Sammy especially had felt about them. And as much as I don’t mind baking for his class, that seemed to miss the point to me. John loves many cookies, but give him the choice and any day he would pick a different dessert. Actually I thought about baking cookies for John’s class, thereby making his day, but no matter what cookie I thought of I did not think it would make his day. So when this month’s Creative Cookie Exchange theme came around, I immediately thought about her. Sammy in particular went crazy–she is becoming a bit of a Francophile–and she talked about them for weeks.
I was not as sold on them the next day–and truly none of the recipes in the book are very large and I think it is for good reason–but the day they were baked they were amazing. Those Classic French Madeleines were amazing. I had had them before but they never did much for me. If you are not familiar with Madeleines, they are a tiny French sponge cake (cookie) baked in distinctive shell-like molds with ridges.
It took me a while to get to it, but when I did I chose to make the Classic French Madeleine–i.e., the basic, quintessential Madeleine cookie. Which also explains why these were the perfect cookie for this month’s Creative Cookie Exchange: Make Someone’s Day. I might need to back up a tad though. Thoughts? There are 2 kinds of Madeleines because in the course of reviewing Madeleines: Elegant French Tea Cakes to Bake and Share I made more than one recipe. Yep that is another Photoshop experiment up there. Affiliate links have been used in this post to link to items I am discussing. A copy of Barbara Feldman Morse’s Madeleines was provided to me in exchange for an honest review–and just in time for this month’s Creative Cookie Exchange. Dulce de Leche Madeleines are out of this world good! Slightly crispy-chewy on the outside, soft and spongy on the inside, my family was fighting over these.
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