We Love Madeleines Hardcover – October 17, 2012

This little book contains a number of wonderful recipes for madeleines, those iconic, shell-shaped French tea cakes. I've been making the traditional lemon-flavored madeleines for a few years. The new recipes in this book have been relatively easy to prepare and came out tasting just fine. The book is enjoyable to look at. It's well-illustrated and well-writtten. Treat yourself, or give the book and a madeleine pan (available on Amazon. I recommend Chicago Metallics) as a gift to someone who enjoys baking and is ready to add les petites madeleines to their repertoire.

I have been watching cooking shows for years but have only just purchased madeleine pans and this sweet little cookbook - "We Love Madeleines". I've tried the gluten-free madeleines and a couple others that I adjusted to be gluten-free and they are turning out beautifully! I'm 64 and had never had these wonderful sweets homemade and it makes all the difference. I'll keep experimenting because the first 3 I tried were great and again, they give you that wonderful picture of the finished product. I'm very happy with this cookbook!

I wanted to learn how to make madeleines and so I bought a couple of pans and this book for recipe ideas. I liked the green tea madeleine recipe especially. This book would be a cute gift for a baker. I plan on making good use of it, madeleines are a nice little treat to have with coffee or bake as a gift. Fun!!

The book is good. The cover came in damaged which was disappointing since it was a gift.

My husband is currently taking his second french class. The instructor asked students to bring in french treats for class. I found this recipe book and picked out two different recipes. She was very pleased with the results. She is a expert on french cuisine and they passed the test with high marks. My husband took the book with him to share the story in the front pages, but she told HIM the story. His instructor requested how to order one for herself. I would say thats a big compliment.

Such a cute little book. Luv it and have been several recipes out of it already and they do not disappoint.

Great cook book full of wonderful Madeline recipes,

This is a collection of recipes from cooks around the world, which is a cool idea, but they're wildly inconsistent. Some are really good. Others are horrible. It's clear that nobody actually tested the recipes before publishing the book.Look at the main ingredients for the first three recipes in the book, for example.Recipe 1: 1c flour, 3/8 cup butterRecipe 2: 1+1/3c flour, 1/2c butterRecipe 3: 3/4c flour, 3/4c butterThat's a pretty wide range - the third recipe has twice the butter of the first and less flour? I was interested to see if such different recipes could all be good.Turns out they can't. The third recipe (the basic with lemon zest) comes out of the oven dripping in butter, without rising. You can add a bit of extra flour to get the consistency right, but the end result is still madeleines that taste like butter. Want actual lemon madeleines? Just add lemon zest to the first recipe in the book, don't follow this one.Anyways, there are some good recipes in here, and most are really simple, so I'm still not too sad I bought the book. Just be prepared to throw away some batches from recipes that don't work.