Tuesdays with Dorie DC: Matcha-White Chocolate Mini Mads

April 20, 2021 at 8:05 pm | Posted in cakes & tortes, cookies & bars, DC, groups, simple cakes, sweet things, tuesdays with dorie | 7 Comments
Tags: baking, cookies

Madeleines…are you cookies, or are you little cakes disguised as seashells? Personally, I say little cakes, and these Matcha-White Chocolate Mini Mads are really little cakes, since they were baked in a mini madeleine tin. A regular-sized tin will work just fine also…whichever you use, just be sure to grease and flour it well, even if it’s nonstick. These are flavored with, you guessed it, matcha and melted white chocolate, and there’s a bit of lime zest in there, too.

Madeleines are easy to make by hand, but you do need to allow time to chill the batter before baking. I got a pretty good bump on the backsides of these babies. In the past, that has not always happened with Dorie’s madeleines, so I was quite pleased. I liked the flavor of these, and their cool Frankensteinian color, courtesy of the green tea powder. They stayed nice and soft even the day after I baked them (I did check them early in the oven to make sure I took them out when they were just done…over-baking tiny things makes me nervous!). I piped a white chocolate drizzle on some of my mini mads, but that wasn’t as cute as I’d hoped, so those didn’t make the photoshoot– haha.

For the recipe, see Dorie’s Cookies by Dorie Greenspan. Don’t forget to check out the rest of the TWD Blogroll!

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Your mads look perfect. I really liked these.

Comment by Cakelaw— April 21, 2021 #

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Yours are SO perfect!!

Comment by Mardi (eat. live. travel. write.)— April 21, 2021 #

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They are so cute. It’s funny, just two days ago I was in a kitchen store and they were selling tiny little Madeleine tins. I was tempted…

Comment by Dorothy's New Vintage Kitchen— April 21, 2021 #

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- mine rarely gets used, so maybe not my smartest purchase haha
  
  Comment by steph (whisk/spoon)— April 21, 2021 #
  
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  - I resisted, but it did inspire me to dig out my standard sized one!
    
    Comment by Dorothy's New Vintage Kitchen— April 21, 2021 #
I love the “mini” mads! Yours turned out perfectly…mine were a little more brown than yours haha

Comment by isthisakeeper— April 22, 2021 #

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Loved “Frankensteinian color”. Glad you were able to get the hump, mine did not. The mini ones are cute and could lead to snacking:)

Comment by Diane Zwang— April 24, 2021 #

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