Mary Poppins has a real passion for raspberry cakes. She adores eating them with her friend Bert when they take afternoon tea inside one of his pictures.
Ingredients
- 2¾ oz butter
- 2 eggs
- 2¾ oz flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 2¾ oz superfine sugar
- 3½ oz raspberry purée (in the baby food section of your store)
How to Make It
- Preheat the oven to 450°F.
- While Bert makes one of his chalk drawings, melt the butter and let it cool to warm. Break the eggs into a mixing bowl and beat them together quickly. For increased efficiency, ask the whisk to do the beating by itself.
- While Bert draws a green meadow with a stream trickling across it, beneath the eyes of the delighted children, take the opportunity to sift the flour and baking powder into the bowl with the beaten egg, and mix together. Add the sugar and mix again, then pour in the melted butter and mix once more.
- While the children point out that they can see horses racing across the meadow, pour a spoonful of the batter into each hole of a madeleine mold. Next, add a teaspoon of raspberry purée and cover with more cake batter, filling the holes by two-thirds only to avoid overflowing during baking.
- Bake for 4 minutes, lower the temperature to 350°F, and bake for a further 4 minutes.
- Turn out the madeleines and let them cool just for the time it takes to pick up an umbrella, put on your coat, and jump into the picture, too.
