Cherry madeleines with hot toffee sauce

Cherry madeleines with hot toffee sauce

These beautiful cherry madeleines come with a boozy toffee sauce for dipping. Serve them for afternoon tea or as a mini dinner party dessert.

Cherry madeleines with hot toffee sauce

Or, try James Martin’s cinnamon madeleines with spiced caramel sauce.

  • Serves icon Makes 24
  • Time icon Hands-on time 30 mins, cook time 15 mins plus standing time

These beautiful cherry madeleines come with a boozy toffee sauce for dipping. Serve them for afternoon tea or as a mini dinner party dessert.

Or, try James Martin’s cinnamon madeleines with spiced caramel sauce.

Nutrition: Per madeleine

Calories
151kcals
Fat
8.8g (5.3g saturated)
Protein
1.5g
Carbohydrates
15.9g (12.2g sugars)
Fibre
0.3g
Salt
0.1g

Ingredients

  • 100g unsalted butter, melted and cooled, plus extra for greasing
  • 100g plain flour, plus extra for dusting
  • 2 medium free-range eggs
  • 100g golden caster sugar
  • Zest of 1 lemon
  • ¾ tsp baking powder
  • 150g cherries, stoned, very finely chopped, patted dry with kitchen paper

For the hot rum toffee sauce

  • 100g caster sugar
  • 25g unsalted butter
  • Good splash of rum (optional)
  • 75ml double cream, at room temperature
  • Good pinch of sea salt
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Method

  1. Heat the oven to 200°C/fan 180°C/gas 6. Lightly brush the madeleine moulds (see tips) with a little melted butter, dust very lightly with flour, then tap out the excess. Set aside.
  2. Whisk the eggs and sugar together in a large bowl until frothy and light. Whisk in all the madeleine ingredients except the cherries, then leave to stand for 20 minutes. Stir in the cherries, then spoon into the moulds.
  3. Bake for 8-9 minutes or until the cakes feel springy and light to the touch and are golden. Remove from the oven and immediately tip out on to a wire rack. While the madeleines are cooling, make the sauce.
  4. Heat the sugar very gently in a heavy-based frying pan without stirring until it has dissolved and turns a rich red-brown colour. Immediately add the butter and stir – be careful as it will spit. Add the rum and let it bubble for 30 seconds or so, then add the cream and stir everything together (if the cream is cold the caramel will solidify – keep stirring over a low heat and it will come back together). Let it all bubble gently for a minute or so, then pour into a bowl. Leave to cool for 5 minutes, then serve immediately with the madeleines for dipping. The cakes are best eaten on the day they’re made, ideally no more than an hour after they come out of the oven.

Nutrition

Calories
151kcals
Fat
8.8g (5.3g saturated)
Protein
1.5g
Carbohydrates
15.9g (12.2g sugars)
Fibre
0.3g
Salt
0.1g

delicious. tips

  1. Try flavouring the madeleine mixture with vanilla or honey. You can also mix lemon juice and icing sugar to drizzle over as a glaze.

    Use 2 x 12-hole, non-stick madeleine moulds – or, if you only have one, just bake in 2 batches.

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