Tuesdays with Dorie BWD: Tea and Honey Madeleines
June 9, 2026 at 8:24 pm | Posted in BWD, cakes & tortes, cookies & bars, groups, simple cakes, sweet things, tuesdays with dorie | Leave a commentTags: baking, cookies
Dorie has lots of good ideas up her sleeves for madeleines, and these Tea and Honey Madeleines are another creative twist on the classic shell-shaped cookie-cakes. Of course we think of dipping our madeleines into tea, but these have the tea built right in. The melted butter in the batter is both browned and infused with Earl Grey tea leaves. A bit of zest further amps up the citrusy notes, and I happened to have some bergamot zest in the freezer (once in a while my little local fancy grocery gets a box of them in), so I used a pinch of that.
When I pulled my mads out of the oven, I was pleased to see the signature humps popping out of the pan, but then my smugness immediately tuned to worry that they were too dark on the shell side. The ups and downs of baking, am I right? In fact, they are perfectly soft, rich and cakey inside, so maybe it was just all that browned tea-butter making them so golden. They are very fragrant and flecked with bits of tea leaf…there’s only one left, so I probably should have made a full batch.
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