Blood Orange Madeleines with Pistachio and Cardamom are light, fluffy, not too sweet, and delicately spiced. Serve with a dusting of icing sugar and ground cardamom for a heavenly treat.
I still haven't gotten my fill of blood oranges this season, so here's yet another blood orange recipe. 🙂
There are few fruit seasons that I look forward to more than blood orange season. Each red speckled orb filled with jewel coloured juice is more precious than diamonds to me.
I plot what I'm going to do with each fruit, separating them into piles, reserved for a particular recipe.
Making Blood Orange Madeleines
One of the recipes I was eager to try was blood orange madeleines with pistachio and cardamom - which I'm a little obsessed with at the moment after the absolutely stunning pear, cardamom and chocolate cake I made recently.
The batter should be made ahead of baking. Resting at least 1 hour in the refrigerator, but preferably overnight (if you're that patient).
The resulting madeleines are light, fluffy, not too sweet, and delicately spiced.
They are also devilishly addictive, with 3 disappearing straight out of the oven.
Serve dusted with a mixture of icing sugar and ground cardamom for a heavenly treat.
More Recipes
If you love these madeleines, be sure to check out these other incredible desserts:
- Cardamom Cookies with Lemon and Pistachios
- Caramelised Orange and Cardamom upside-down cake
- Gingerbread Madeleines
- Madeleines au chocolat
📖 Recipe
Ingredients
- 3 eggs
- 130 g brown sugar, ⅔ cup
- 160 g plain flour, 1 ¼ cups
- 50 g ground pistachios
- 1 ½ teaspoon ground cardamom
- 1 ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 2 blood oranges
- 200 g butter, melted and cooled, 7oz
- icing sugar, for dusting
- ¼ teaspoon ground cardamom, additional, for dusting
Instructions
- Zest one of the oranges and squeeze out the juice of both the oranges. This should measure around ⅓ cup. Place the eggs and sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer and whisk until thick, pale and doubled in volume, around 5 minutes.
- Combine the juice and butter and add to the egg mixture in two batches, folding through until combined. Sift in the flour and cardamom and add the ground pistachios and fold through the mixture.
- Cover and leave to rest in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour, or overnight.
- When you are ready to bake the madeleines, preheat the oven to 180 Celsius 350 Fahrenheit. Butter and flour a 12-shell madeleine tin and place heaped tablespoons of the batter into each mould.
- Bake for 8 to 10 minutes or until golden and cooked through. Transfer the madeleines to a wire rack to cool and wash, dry, butter and flour the tin and repeat with remaining batter. Dust with icing sugar and cardamom and serve warm.
Rosa says
Lovely! Those are divine looking Madeleines.Cheers,Rosa
Claire @ Claire K Creations says
I love your blood orange obsession. I always see them in the shops but never know what to do with them so leave them there!
Jennifer says
Glad to give you a few ideas Claire 🙂 Hopefully you'll give them a try next time you see them.
Laura (Tutti Dolci) says
Beautiful madeleines, the flavors sound wonderful!
thelittleloaf says
Oh wow, these look divine. I love blood oranges but never seem to get beyond eating them raw or turning into sorbet. This recipe looks gorgeous...I need a madeleine pan in my life.
Lizzy (Good Things) says
Simply beautiful!
Thanh @ eat, little bird says
I love madeleines and this citrus version sounds delicious!
Alexandra says
I think I know what I will be baking tomorrow 🙂 ... your madeleines look delicious.