Creator: Aimee Stout, California
Category: 2nd Place Winner, "Sweet" category 2007
Servings: 20 Madeleines
Adventure Ingredients: Grapefruit, Rosemary, Sea Salt
Ingredients:
1 grapefruit
3 eggs
3/4 cup butter plus 2 oz - softened
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
3/ 4 cup sugar
1 pinch salt
62 % Cacao
Scharffen Berger
chocolate - 3 oz bar
1/2 c heavy cream
1 sprig fresh rosemary - chopped
Sea salt (optional)
Preparation:
Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
Prepare grapefruit: Using a grater or zester, grate 1/2 teaspoon of the grapefruit rind. Using a juicer, squeeze the juice from the grapefruit, measure out 1/4 cup. Place grated rind and 1/4 cup juice in large mixing bowl. Add in 3 eggs and 3/4 c butter and mix with an electric mixer on high speed. When ingredients are completely blended, add the dry ingredients: flour, baking powder, sugar, salt.
Using the remaining butter, generously butter a madeleine pan, then fill each section 3/4 full with the batter. Bake for 10 minutes. Immediately after coming out of the oven, the madeleines will remove easily from the pan by using a knife tip to pry out of the pan. Allow to cool for 30 minutes on a wire rack.
Prepare a double boiler pan, once water boils, turn down to low heat. Add the heavy cream and chopped rosemary. Heat for 10 minutes. Remove from heat and using a strainer, remove rosemary from the cream and pour into another bowl. Break the into pieces and with the heavy cream, melt together, using a wisk to combine ingredients until completely melted. Drizzle over madeleines on wire rack. After drizzling each madeleine with chocolate - sprinkle with a pinch of sea salt. Allow one hour for chocolate to set before eating.
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