DARK-CHOCOLATE MADELEINES WITH CHOCOLATE MINT GLAZE
Oh these are good and rich--more like a cookie to have with coffee than with a Proustian tisane. They require a little work but they really are worth it. From "Chocolate Passion: Recipes and Inspiration From the Kitchens of Chocolatier Magazine," by Tish Boyle and Tim Moriarty. Cooking time includes time for chilling the batter and cooling the cookies and allowing for the glaze to set.
Provided by Chef Kate
Categories Dessert
Time 3h
Yield 24 cookies
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- In a small, heavy saucepan, heat the butter over medium heat until light golden brown and fragrant, about 5 minutes.
- Remove from the heat and stir in the cocoa powder.
- Strain the mixture and let cool until tepid.
- Meanwhile, melt the chocolate, and allow it to cool slightly.
- Sift the flour, baking powder and salt together into a small bowl and set aside.
- Place the eggs, egg yolk and the granulated sugar into a 4 1/2 -quart bowl of a heavy-duty electric mixer.
- Place the bowl with the eggs and sugar over a bowl of hot water to warm them, stirring frequently until the sugar begins to dissolve.
- Remove the bowl with the eggs and sugar from the water and dry off the bottom.
- Attach the bowl to the mixer and beat the egg mixture using the whisk attachment on medium-high speed until the mixture forms soft peaks when the beater is lifted.
- Beat in the vanilla extract.
- In a clean, grease-free bowl using a hand-held electric mixer, beat the egg whites on high speed until they form stiff but not dry peaks.
- Fold the dry ingredients into the egg-sugar mixture.
- Fold in the melted butter and chocolate. Finally, fold in the egg whites. Place the madeleine batter in the refrigerator to chill for 15 minutes.
- Place 2 racks in the lower half of the oven and preheat to 375 degrees.
- Butter and flour two 12-mold madeleine pans. Chill the pans briefly.
- Remove the pans and the batter from the refrigerator.
- Place a dollop of batter in each mold and smooth with an offset palette knife or spatula.
- Bake for 15 minutes, or until the center springs back when lightly touched.
- Do not overbake.
- Remove the madeleines from the molds and cool on a wire rack.
- To make mint-chocolate glaze, place chopped chocolate into a heat-resistant bowl.
- In a small saucepan, bring the heavy cream to a boil.
- Immediately pour the cream over the chocolate and let stand 1 minute before stirring.
- Stir gently until the chocolate is melted and combined.
- Stir in the mint extract.
- Using a pastry brush, generously glaze half of the shell side of each madeleine.
- Allow the glaze to set before wrapping in plastic or storing in an airtight container.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 85.8, Fat 5.4, SaturatedFat 3.2, Cholesterol 40.8, Sodium 45, Carbohydrate 8, Fiber 0.2, Sugar 4.3, Protein 1.5
CHOCOLATE MINT GLAZE
Steps:
- In the top of a double boiler set over simmering water, melt the chocolate, stirring occasionally, until smooth. Whisk in the water and creme de menthe all at once. Remove from the heat and stir until very glossy. Use immediately as a glaze for chocolate mint cake.
MINT BUTTERCREAM FROSTING WITH DARK CHOCOLATE GLAZE
This is a good frosting for Mayonnaise Cake. If you're really having a chocolate fit, double the glaze! The frosting and cake are rich enough to cut the unsweetened chocolate taste. Pour some glaze on the middle layer too.
Provided by Brenda Benzar Butler
Categories Desserts Frostings and Icings Chocolate
Yield 12
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- In a large bowl, cream 1 1/3 cups sugar with 1/2 cup butter or margarine, and salt. Blend extract, 2 tablespoons milk, and remaining sugar into mixture. Gradually stir remaining milk into frosting until desired spreading consistency is reached.
- Melt and stir unsweetened chocolate and 2 tablespoons butter or margarine together in a microwave, or in a double boiler. Double this glaze if desired.
- Frost cake. Pipe a frosting scallop at the top edge of the cake to keep glaze from dripping down the sides of the cake. Pour the glaze over the top of the cake. Chill until glaze has set.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 267.1 calories, Carbohydrate 41.5 g, Cholesterol 25.8 mg, Fat 12.2 g, Fiber 0.8 g, Protein 0.9 g, SaturatedFat 7.7 g, Sodium 96 mg, Sugar 39.5 g
CHOCOLATE MADELEINES
Provided by Susan Herrmann Loomis
Categories Cookies Chocolate Dessert Bake Kidney Friendly Vegetarian Pescatarian Peanut Free Tree Nut Free Soy Free Kosher
Yield Makes about 36 madeleines
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- 1. Sift together the flour, cocoa and the salt.
- 2. Place the eggs and the sugar in a large bowl or the bowl of an electric mixer and whisk until thick and lemon-colored. Fold in the flour, then melted butter.
- 3. Butter the madeleine pans, then spoon in the batter, filling each about three fourths full. Refrigerate the filled madeleine pans and the remaining batter for one hour.
- 4. Heat the oven to 425°F (220°C).
- 5. Bake the madeleines just until they are firm and puffed, about 7 minutes. Turn them immediately from the molds, wipe out the molds, let cool and continue baking the madeleines until all of the batter is used. The madeleines are best when eaten slightly warm or at room temperature the same day they are made.
CHOCOLATE GLAZED MADELEINES
Baking cakes in molds and then glazing them with chocolate makes a great Easter treat. We used egg, rabbit, lamb, and chicken molds.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Breakfast & Brunch Recipes
Yield Makes about 4 small or 2 large cakes
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- Heat oven to 350 degrees.
- Coat the molds first with vegetable-oil spray, then lightly rub with room-temperature butter. Do not leave any lumps of butter in the indentations of the mold.
- Set molds on a baking tray. To keep them level, prop them up with loosely crumpled aluminum foil.
- Melt the butter and allow it to cool while proceeding with the recipe.
- Using the whisk attachment on an electric mixer, beat together the eggs and sugar until tripled in bulk, 10 to 12 minutes.
- Add the salt, vanilla, and lemon zest, mixing thoroughly. Add the flour in 3 batches, very quickly shifting speed from low to high after each addition. Add the melted butter in the same manner.
- Using the whisk, scrape sides and bottom of the bowl, carefully blending batter so the butter doesn't settle to the bottom.
- Fill the prepared molds three-quarters full. Bake until golden, about 10 minutes, depending on size of mold. Invert cakes onto wire racks as soon as they are removed from oven. When thoroughly cooled, glaze with Chocolate or White Chocolate Ganache.
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