What the what??? A simple french cake from Dorie Greenspan. One I was inspired to bake after listening to Dorie on NPR three days ago and immediately joining the French Fridays with Dorie (FFwD) cooking group.
What fun! Baking Thursday night to post on Friday and getting a Friday after school snack for the kids in the process. Bingo! This is the "cooking school" for me: once a week try something new from a superb cookbook -- very doable -- with the group accountability that seems to deliver the "stick to it" factor. I'm very happy to find you TWDers and FFwDers.
The cake. Very easy to stir together. I put mine in a 6 inch round and baked it for 40 minutes. Taste: a super buttery madeleine without those pesky molds. A simple cake that is perfect solo but would stand beautifully beside baked sliced pears, berries and cream or a fruit compote.
From Around My French Table, by Dorie Greenspan (she has links on her site to buy from many booksellers, including indies -- cool!)
9 comments:
Welcome to the group, Amy! I love that you have a smaller springform pan. I should look into getting one of those for my two-person household.
Hi Adriana! It's not even springform - just a deep 6" cake pan. Butter + flour, rest 10 min post-bake and the cake pops out like a dream.
Beautiful! I think I like the taller cake better. I'll have to try a smaller pan next time!
This was a great cake and yours looks beautiful! Welcome to the group!
Welcome! :) I didn't think about it but it almost was a giant madeleine. Yours looks great!
Welcome aboard!
The six inch pan definitely gave that cake some height! And I never thought to make the comparison back to a madeline. HMMMM
Welcome to FFWD! Love the tall cake - it looks terrific!
Your tall cake is sort of like a round version of the typical loaf shape. Welcome to FFwD!
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