French cakes recipes - 2 recipes
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- 100 g flour;
- 5 tablespoons shaved corn flower soup;
- 135g sugar;
- 2 large eggs;
- 125 g butter;
- 1 sachet of vanilla sugar (7g);
- 1sachet baking powder.
Madeleines
By SophieMiffo
Bake a batch of these buttery little French cakes to have with a cup of tea or coffee
- 2 free-range eggs
- 100g/3½oz caster sugar
- 100g/3½oz plain flour, plus extra for dusting
- 1 lemon, juice and zest
- ¾ tsp baking powder
- 100g/3½oz butter, melted and cooled slightly, plus extra for greasing
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