Madelons Recipe
Ingredients
| Cream-Puff Dough, | ||
| Heavy cream | 1/2 Cup (16 tbs) | |
| Confectioner’s sugar | 2 Tablespoon | |
| Vanilla extract | 1/2 Teaspoon | |
| 3/4 cup cherry preserves | ||
| Confectioners' sugar | ||
Directions
Preheat oven to 400F.
Make Cream-Puff Dough.
Place dough in pastry bag with number-6 star tip.
Pipe, 2 inches apart, onto ungreased cookie sheet, to make 12 S shapes, 3 inches long.
Bake 25 to 30 minutes, or until puffed and a deep golden-brown.
Remove to wire rack; cool com- pletely.
Meanwhile, beat cream with 2 tablespoons sugar and the vanilla until stiff.
Refrigerate, covered.
To assemble madelons: With sharp knife, cut each S-shape puff in half crosswise.
Scoop out any filaments of soft dough.
Spoon 1 tablespoon cherry preserves into each bottom half, then a rounded tablespoon of whipped cream; replace top.
Sprinkle with confectioners' sugar.
Refrigerate if not serving at once.
Makes 12.
Make Cream-Puff Dough.
Place dough in pastry bag with number-6 star tip.
Pipe, 2 inches apart, onto ungreased cookie sheet, to make 12 S shapes, 3 inches long.
Bake 25 to 30 minutes, or until puffed and a deep golden-brown.
Remove to wire rack; cool com- pletely.
Meanwhile, beat cream with 2 tablespoons sugar and the vanilla until stiff.
Refrigerate, covered.
To assemble madelons: With sharp knife, cut each S-shape puff in half crosswise.
Scoop out any filaments of soft dough.
Spoon 1 tablespoon cherry preserves into each bottom half, then a rounded tablespoon of whipped cream; replace top.
Sprinkle with confectioners' sugar.
Refrigerate if not serving at once.
Makes 12.
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