Chocolate Orange Madeleines | Jaffa Fruit

Chocolate Orange Madeleines

Recipe created by Karen Weedon (Instagram @KazWeedon)

  • 150g of flour (to make chocolate Madeleines replace 30g of flour with cocoa powder)
  • 5g baking powder
  • 125g unsalted butter
  • 1 squeeze of a Jaffa Orange juice
  • 3 whole eggs
  • 100g caster sugar
  • pinch of salt
  • 20g honey
  1. Break the eggs in a bowl, pour over the sugar and whisk slowly for one minute.
  2. Add the honey and continue to whisk until the mixture is white and frothy.
  3. Melt the butter in a small saucepan, when melted add the orange juice and let it cool.
  4. Sift the flour, salt and baking powder in the bowl over the egg/sugar mix.
  5. Add the cold melted butter and mix together gently.
  6. Place the mixture in the fridge for at least an hour (or better still overnight). This gets the ‘bellies’ on your cakes.
  7. The next day preheat your oven at 220 degree C.
  8. Butter and flour the madeleine pan.
  9. Turn the oven down to 200 degrees C before placing the madeleines into the oven.
  10. After 4 minutes turn the oven down to 180 C and bake for a further 4-5 minutes.
  11. After you take them out of the oven, leave to cool for a while before turning them out on to a plate to completely cool. Don’t put your freshly baked madeleines on a wire rack as this may leave marks on the cakes.
  12. Melt 200g white chocolate and add orange food colouring. Stir together and then dip the end of the madelines in. before the chocolate sets, sprinkle over some orange zest.