french pastries

Guess Who

Name That Dish!

Although I tested your knowledge of various French pastries, I didn't include the seductive rectangular sweet shown below.
Although I tested your knowledge of various French pastries, I didn't include the seductive rectangular sweet shown below. Do you know what it goes by?

Can You Guess the French Pastry?

baking

52 Weeks of Baking: Madeleines

One of geeksugar's favorite treats is a fresh baked madeleine - for those of you that don't know, a madeleine is a French, cakelike cookie shaped like a shell.

One of geeksugar's favorite treats is a fresh baked madeleine - for those of you that don't know, a madeleine is a French, cakelike cookie shaped like a shell. In fact, she likes them so much, her mom actually ended up buying her the special pan in order to make her own. Only there was one problem: geeksugar swears she can't cook. I think this is a total lie and so I suggested that she make a batch and then I would make a batch. I'd never made madeleines before, in fact I couldn't even remember what they were supposed to taste like, but I thought it would be a fun challenge. Besides, I wanted to see what her "non-cooking" skills could muster up. To see both of our results and check out the recipe we used, read more