Not many people know this but moles are excellent bakers - their huge powerful forefeet (more commonly used for tunneling underground) are the very thing for mixing, beating and kneading. Transferable skills, you see.
The cake mix - or 'batter' - for madeleines involves a LOT of beating but Apolline never uses an electric mixer, preferring instead to beat by hand (paw). But she suggest that anyone else wanting to have a go uses a mixer - unless, of course, you have the forearms of a mole.
Click here for Apolline's recommended recipe - the results are truly delicious: small, light, delicate cakes with a slightly crisp and biscuity exterior. The very thing for a traditional Le Goûter after school snack.
Bon Appetit!
You will need:
Madeleine tin, lemons, eggs, vanilla essence, flour, butter, sugar
And a mole or an electric mixer.
Here she is, using her powerful mole forearms to mix the batter...
...and to zest the lemon
Spooning the batter into her special madeleine tin
Mmmm! Delicious
Bon Appetit!
