Brown Butter Madeleine Cookies

These cookies are famous for there buttery and cake like texture with a hint of orange. I made a couple different flavors to give you guys a little extra something =) With flavors like dulce de leche, raspberry with lemon curd, birthday cake, blueberry and the classic madeleine cookies. These delightful cookies are one of a kind with there beautiful shape.You are going to need a special pan. i got mines from macys at a very low price but you can get them from any baking supplies store.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Butter and flour your pan.

{For the cookies}

• 3/4 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup flour 
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 tablespoon orange zest 
• 4 egg whites 
• 1/2 unsalted butter 

Mix the sugar, flour, baking powder, zest and egg whites together. Set aside.
Place the butter in a sauce pan and melt on low to medium heat till you see the butter getting light brown with  slight dark brown specks and a foamy layer on top. Add to the butter to the batter and filled 1/3 of the way up.

{For the toppings}

• dulce de leche
• sprinkles
• powder sugar
• raspberry
• lemon curd (recipe follows)
• blueberries 

{Lemon curd}

• 1 egg
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon lemon zest
• 1/4 lemon juice 
• 2 tablespoon butter

Add all the ingredients except the butter to a heat proof bowl whisk over a double boiler making sure the bowl doesn't touch the water. Whisk till the mixture is thick, once is thick combined the butter. Remove from heat and refrigerate till cold. Fill the the cool raspberry cookies, and your done! Ready to enjoy!

For the birthday cake add the sprinkles on top and you can even go crazy and dunk them in (butter cream) frosting.

For the de dulce de leche just drizzle on top of the cool cookie.

For the blueberry just add two blueberries and a pinch of lemon zest on top.

For the classic just top with powder sugar it makes all the difference in the world, but the list can go on and on. You can dip in nutella, chocolate chips dipped in more chocolate or add any berry you like, you can  let your creativity go wild on this one lol. Thanks and come again next week for more delicious and simple recipes =)