How To Make Classic French Madeleines? Our Recipe

The ingredients you will need for this recipe:

• 110 g flour
• 111 g sugar
• 3 g fine salt
• 4 g baking powder
• 1 g lemon zest
• 122 g whole egg
• 32 g egg yolk
• 122 g clarified butter
• 1 g bergamot

Follow these steps to prepare the cake mixture:

• Mix the flour, sugar, salt, yeast and lemon zest
• Mix with a whisk by hand
• Add the eggs and seperate yolks
• Add the clarified butter at 40°C
• Add the bergamot
• Leave in the fridge for a few hours
• Butter and flour the madeleine moulds
• Arrange the madeleines and leave them in the fridge for an hour
• Bake at 180°C closed oven for 7 minutes

Find out more about the chef behind this tasty recipe

Julien Gradoz

As the son of a restaurateur, Julien discovered the art of fine dining from a very early age. After his studies in a French hotel school, Julien met many chefs, from the most humble to the most famous.

After working as a pastry chef in a two-star restaurant, Julien decided to join the Alain Ducasse group and continued his career at the Louis XV restaurant in Monaco and the Alain Ducasse restaurant in Paris. After a stint working in the Prime Minister's service at the Hôtel de Matignon, his career continued in France and abroad. 

After several years working in this sector, Julien's passion for the culinary arts and his desire to pass on his knowledge and skills to the next generation have led him into the field of education and the doors of EHL where he now works as a Senior lecturer. Julien won the Catering World Cup in 2017.