Madeleines

I first had madeleines at my most favorite meal EVER. The restaurant is called Giverny and it's at the luxury Mirbeau Spa and Inn in Skaneatles, NY. We had a 4 course dinner...and the dessert course was fabulous but they gave us a side of madeleines on top of our dessert. I ended up eating all the madeleines and skipped most of my dessert! haha..Then, I recently was scanning through my Martha Stewart Baking handbook and saw the recipe. It took a week to get the pan (on sale right now for $10 from crateandbarrel.com) and I was finally able to try it out. I overcooked the first batch by a few minutes (the one shown) but the crunchy outside is delicious...the 2nd batch came out more moist and not so dark in color. Either way...yummmmy!