Matcha madeleine recipe (2024)

Published December 13, 2018 / Last modified December 13, 2018 By Shihoko | Chopstick Chronicles / 19 Comments

I love the aroma of freshly baked matcha madeleines, and how it fills my urban cottage home at this festive time of year. Baking with subtle matcha green tea and the hint of rich bittersweet flavour of matcha madeleines, is the baking I do for holiday season. It is just perfect. Here is my Matcha Madeleines recipe.

Classic French Madeleines recipe with Japanese infusion

Madeleines are a classic French petite butter cake. They are typically baked in a shell shaped mould. This is my favourite western sweet. It is also very easy to make and almost foolproof. So how do I make it Japanese? By adding Matcha flavour!

Cookies or Butter cake?

Surprisingly (to me), because of it’s petite size, many people regard madeleines as cookies. It is however, a mini French butter cake and usually shell shaped.

Popular well known French confectioneryin Japan

Madeleines and Baumkuchen (German Tree Cake) are probably the two most famous foreign sweets that Japanese people eat. Madeleines are my all time favourite French sweets. When I was a child, madeleines were a very special treat to eat.

My fond childhood memory of French Madeleines

I only ever got to eat madeleines, when my uncle and aunty came to visit us, and brought some home-baked madeleines. I was amazed by how delicious the little cakes were, and how they tasted like they were from a fancy french store, but were just made at home.

So I joined the Baking Club

I was so inspired by my aunt’s delicious madeleines, that I really wanted to start baking so I joined the school baking club. I really wanted to learn how to make amazing western sweets that we don’t commonly eat in Japan. Usually we eat things like mochi or red bean based desserts, so madeleines were always so special for me. I searched for the best madeleines recipe.

Distinctive Shell shape

It is a pretty shell shape isn’t it? Almost too pretty to eat. I was lucky to find a photogenic old round shell shaped mould from a local antique shop. Also I bought another one online because this is the cake I often make. Don’t worry if you don’t have one, you can use any shaped mould. Japanese people often bake madeleines in shallow tart moulds.

Foolproof Madeleines Recipe

This is a really easy recipe to do because you just add all the ingredients to a bowl, and stir together. It doesn’t require any special beating or other things. You can change the flavour by adding some cocoa powder to make a chocolate flavour or you can add Hojicha to make Hojicha flavoured madeleines.

The Proof of Success: Madeleines bump

Following this madeleines recipe, I always have the BUMP. Your success in baking Madeleines can be measured by the size of the bump! Chilled madeleines batter baked in a hot oven create that bump.

Here is my Matcha Madeleine recipe. And if you like it, please rate it and leave a comment or any questions below. Also don’t forget to check out my other Japanese infused western baking goodies such as Hojicha chiffon cake, Japanese souffle cheesecakeand Baumkuchen

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