Cranberry Madeleines
October 15, 2010 | Print | E-mail | Filed under 12weeksofchristmascookies, cookie, cranberry
When I saw fresh cranberries at the grocery store this week, I quickly tossed a couple bags into my cart. I wasn’t expecting to see them on the shelves for another few weeks, so I’m excited to start baking with them a little early this year. One of my favorite things to make with them is my cranberry coffee cake, so I plan to make that tomorrow for breakfast – but first, I decided that I needed to incorporate cranberries into my Christmas cookies for this week! Since I enjoyed Dorie’s recipe for madeleines so much the first time I made them, I decided to tweak her recipe again to make these cranberry-flavored cookies. They go perfectly with a cup of tea or hot cocoa!
Recipe adapted from Baking From my Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan.
- 1/8 cup water
- 1/3 cup fresh cranberries
- 2/3 cup flour
- 3/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/8 tsp kosher salt
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 6 Tbsp butter, melted
In a small sauce pan, heat the water over medium-high heat. Cook down the cranberries until they burst.
In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, and salt.
In a small bowl, beat the eggs and sugar 2-3 minutes, and then beat in the vanilla and cranberries. Fold in the dry ingredients and then the melted butter. Press a piece of plastic wrap against the surface of the batter and refrigerate it for at least 3 hours or up to 2 days.
When ready to bake, preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Spoon the batter into the mold, filling each one almost to the top.
Bake mini madeleines 8-10 minutes. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve warm. Makes 60 mini madeleines.
October 15th, 2010 at 9:27 am
The first thing I thought when I saw these was how PRETTY they are! What a gorgeous cookie.
October 15th, 2010 at 10:14 am
how pretty! I can’t wait to make these!
October 15th, 2010 at 10:20 am
What a lovely use of cranberries! I am definitely going to check out your cranberry coffee cake, too.
October 15th, 2010 at 10:27 am
Gorgeous cookies, they look easy to make!
October 15th, 2010 at 10:28 am
Lovely Cranberry Cookies which will be loved by all.
October 15th, 2010 at 10:40 am
I LOVE cranberries! These look wonderful – thanks for sharing them!
October 15th, 2010 at 11:15 am
I’ve never made madeleines before. They look so pretty the way you have them displayed!
October 15th, 2010 at 11:18 am
Cranberries are here? Yippee, I’ve been waiting for them. Those and the pumpkin creamer!
I have to get me a Madeleine pan. These look so festive!
October 15th, 2010 at 11:31 am
These are so pretty! Love it!
October 15th, 2010 at 11:37 am
These are so pretty! I love cranberries! I look forward to making homemade cranberry sauce during the holidays and to hold me over until then you can more than likely find me snacking on dried cranberries at home throughout the year. They are so tasty! I will have to try this recipe. I know I’ll love it!
October 15th, 2010 at 12:31 pm
Bookmarking these for the holidays!
October 15th, 2010 at 2:05 pm
Love your blog. You have such wonderful photos.
October 15th, 2010 at 2:28 pm
What a beautiful photo. I have yet to buy myself a madeleine pan. But, looking at your recipe, I can see what I’m missing. Still, I can look at your madeleines and dream.
October 15th, 2010 at 2:51 pm
So grgeous and simple, Lovely photos too
October 15th, 2010 at 4:28 pm
Oh my Tracy! – I just LOVE the idea of these little gems of a cookie! Madelines are simply wonderful….and how unique to add cranberries to them – brilliant you are!!!
Happy Friday!
~avril
October 15th, 2010 at 4:39 pm
Great idea with the cranberry flavour to these fabulous goodies!
October 15th, 2010 at 5:00 pm
Madelines always make me happy.. they just look like a delicious little cookie and yours are just another reason I really need to buckle down and buy a pan!
October 15th, 2010 at 10:27 pm
I too was surprised to see bags on cranberries out so early.
I suppose I should have snapped up a few – but…….
October 15th, 2010 at 11:02 pm
Ooo la la! Pretty Madeline’s!! I love the look of these.
October 16th, 2010 at 9:32 am
Beautiful, Tracy, as usual! I love your link photos your readers can submit! What great way to connect. Thank you!
October 16th, 2010 at 4:14 pm
Cranberries are out?!??! Oh yay!
Your Madeleines look fabulous….I bet they are delicious!
October 16th, 2010 at 4:39 pm
I have never tried Madeleines…but they look delish!
October 17th, 2010 at 1:50 pm
Oooooh! It just so happens I have a spare bag of cranberries kicking around!
October 17th, 2010 at 10:11 pm
Madeleines always seem so fancy! Yours look delicious, and the cranberry makes them perfect for Christmas
October 18th, 2010 at 8:48 am
They look so pretty!
October 18th, 2010 at 9:23 am
I have been lusting after a madeleine pan for so long! I think your pictures have finally pushed me to order one. They look fantastic!
October 18th, 2010 at 12:15 pm
Madelines + Cranberries! What a great combination! I’ll have to make these soon. Thanks for posting these
October 18th, 2010 at 3:15 pm
These look gorgeous!! I love madeleines, really wish I had this pan!!
October 18th, 2010 at 8:24 pm
I have only made madeleines once, but loved them. These are gorgeous and festive – perfect for the holidays!
October 18th, 2010 at 9:53 pm
These are just beautiful! Seeing the beautifully plated cookies makes me want to grab a mug of hot chocolate and watch it snow outside. Guess I need to wait a few months for that… At least for the snow!
October 18th, 2010 at 10:48 pm
I haven’t made madeleines, but yours make me want to try them. What a fun way to change them up for Christmas.
October 22nd, 2010 at 2:34 pm
I love Maddies (as I like to call them). Their cakey texture is so incredible and these, my dear, look perfect.