noun
- small sponge cakes baked in shell-shaped molds, originally from France
Usage: culinary
Examples
- She served delicate madeleines with afternoon tea.
- The bakery’s madeleines were perfectly golden and buttery.
- Marcel Proust famously wrote about madeleines dipped in tea.
- The shell-shaped madeleines were dusted with powdered sugar.
- French madeleines are traditionally flavored with lemon zest.
- The recipe calls for baking the madeleines in special fluted molds.