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Published: Jun 9, 2022 ยท Last Updated On: Sep 18, 2024 by Natasha Minocha

Chocolate Cherry Madeleines

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These chocolate cherry madeleines with their dense crumb redolent and moist with cherry juices and gooey chocolate chips were a big hit at my home. Dipping them in chocolate was just the โ€œcherryโ€ on top!

Theyโ€™re tender, tiny, soft tea cakes and look fancier and fussier with the stunning chocolate glaze crowning them. Theyโ€™re not. The recipe is as unfussy as it gets. Even left in the fridge for a couple of days, the madeleines remain super soft with the fresh fruit flavor intensifying.

Chocolate Cherry Madeleines | Eggless Chocolate Madeleines with cherries

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Chocolate cherry madeleine recipe

Ways to serve

Dipping in chocolate

Baking tips

Ingredient substitutes

Other cherry recipes to try

What are French madeleines?

Madeleines are very similar to sponge cakes but have a more compact crumb. Theyโ€™re light, buttery, ideal with tea or coffee, and recognizable by a hump on one side and a sea-shell-like design on the other. Because they likely came from 2 communes in France (Liverdun and Commercy), theyโ€™re known as French madeleines.

Baking Chocolate Cherry Madeleines | Eggless Chocolate Madeleines with cherries

How to make chocolate cherry madeleines?

Thereโ€™s nothing better than relaxing with a cup of coffee or pot of tea and a good book on a late Wednesday evening. But some hump days deserve a little something to pick you up. For those days, I recommend these cherry madeleines dipped in chocolate.

Step 1: Melt your butter in the microwave or on the stovetop. Youโ€™re melting, not browning.

Step 2: While the butter cools, sift all-purpose flour, cocoa powder, and baking powder.

Step 3: Stir in sugar. I used coconut, but regular white sugar works equally well.

Step 4: To these dry ingredients, add milk and vanilla extract. Again, I used coconut milk, thanks to a digestive system that does not want to be friends with lactose.

Step 5: Slowly stir in the melted and cooled butter and finally fold in chocolate chips and chopped, pitted fresh cherries.

Bake and coat the cherry madeleines with chocolate

Step 6: Cover the batter in cling wrap and refrigerate for at least 2 hours. The chocolate cherry madeleines are also a great make-ahead recipe as you can chill the batter for up to 2 days.

Step 7: If youโ€™re using a metal mold like me, grease it with a liberal hand and then sprinkle with flour. Pipe the batter ยพth of the way in each cavity and then bake. But if youโ€™re using a silicone mold, no prep is needed.

Step 8: Bake the cherry madeleines for 12 to 14 minutes in a preheated oven, or until the tops are golden and a skewer or toothpick inserted comes out clean.

Ready baked Chocolate Cherry Madeleines | Eggless Chocolate Madeleines with cherries

Process video of making & decorating the chocolate madeleines!

3 ways to serve French chocolate madeleines with cherries

These tiny, buttery tea cakes with crisp edges can be served in three ways:

  • As-is, fragrant and warm right out of the oven.
  • Just slightly cooled, dusted with icing sugar.
  • With a shiny, glossy coat of dark chocolate.
Chocolate Cherry Madeleines | Eggless Chocolate Madeleines with cherries

How to make madeleines dipped in chocolate?

If youโ€™re in the mood for something posher (without making any effort), use this cool technique (TBH, itโ€™s more of a trick) to make chocolate-covered madeleines.

  • Wash the madeleine mold so itโ€™s completely clean. and dry it well. Any traces of grease or water will mess up your chocolate layer.
  • Pour a teaspoon (or 2) of melted chocolate into each cavity and spread it around, making sure itโ€™s completely covered.
  • Place your baked and cooled (the last is very important) madeleine with the shell design facing towards the chocolate.
  • Press it down gently, so the melted dark chocolate covers it nicely.
  • Repeat for all and then pop the mold in the freezer for 5 to 10 minutes.
  • Check if the chocolate has set. The edges would have hardened. Give it an additional 5 minutes, if need be.
  • Bring out the mold, tap it on your kitchen counter 3 or 4 times, and then turn it over. The madeleines will pop out easily.
Coating the madeleines with dark chocolate
Dip the madeleines in the melted chocolate

My tips for baking these gorgeous chocolate cherry madeleines

  • Donโ€™t overmix.
  • Chill the batter. Along with baking powder, it helps the madeleine rise like a phoenix, forming that signature hump on one side and a seashell on the other.
  • Donโ€™t even out the madeleine batter in the cavities.
  • You donโ€™t need hot chocolate. Just melted and cooled a tad, so it forms an even shiny finish.
  • Keep the chocolate coating of the madeleines thin. Too thick and itโ€™ll crack.
  • Donโ€™t tap the mold too hard on the counter when youโ€™re taking out the madeleines, as it may break the set chocolate. If there is an odd, fussy cherry madeleine, use a butter knife to loosen the edges.
  • Use a deeper shell mold, like my matcha madeleines, not my lemon madeleines.
Chocolate Cherry Madeleines | Eggless Chocolate Madeleines with cherries

Tweaks you can do the cherry madeleines with chocolate ingredients

This is one recipe where I wonโ€™t recommend a lot of ingredient substitutes. You can use regular milk. It works like a charm every time.

My family likes dark chocolate, so thatโ€™s my personal recommendation. 60 to 70% is a fantastic choice.

To make vegan chocolate cherry madeleines, any plant-based milk will do. Switch butter for coconut oil. Itโ€™s the only oil Iโ€™ll suggest. Or try coconut butter, if you can get your hands on it.

Make sure itโ€™s (oil or butter) melted and cooled because it hardens when you refrigerate the batter, and that lends these small, feather-light, almost spongy cakes the characteristic, lovely texture.

Chocolate Cherry Madeleines | Eggless Chocolate Madeleines with cherries

Why should you try chocolate cherry madeleines?

Easy to make

Cakes that you can eat like cookies

The fabulous chocolate shell makes them alluring for occasions

Store well in the refrigerator (you donโ€™t want the chocolate to melt)

More cherry dessert recipes

Mango Cherry Frozen Yogurt

Chocolate Cherry Muffins

Peach Cherry Cake

Cherry Galette

Cherry Pie

Fresh Cherry Cake

Cherry Bread Pudding

Cherry Frozen Yogurt

Easy Cherry Yogurt Popsicles

Other madeleine recipes you can try

Chocolate Madeleines

Coconut Ginger Madeleines

Vegan Coffee Hazelnut Madeleines

Cardamom Pistachio Madeleines

Carrot Cake Madeleines

Chocolate Cherry Madeleines | Eggless Chocolate Madeleines with cherries

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Chocolate Cherry Madeleines | Eggless Chocolate Madeleines with cherries

Chocolate Cherry Madeleines

Natasha Minocha
These chocolate cherry madeleines with their dense crumb redolent and moist with cherry juices and gooey chocolate chips are a big hit at my home. Dipping them in chocolate was just the โ€œcherryโ€ on top!
5 from 1 vote
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Prep Time 15 minutes mins
Cook Time 15 minutes mins
Course cake, Cookies
Cuisine French
Servings 14 madeleines
Calories 149 kcal

Ingredients
 
 

  • 1 1/4 cup All-purpose flour
  • 2 tbsp Cocoa powder
  • 1.5 tsp Baking powder
  • 1/2 cup Coconut sugar You can use regular white sugar too
  • 2/3 cup Coconut milk You can use regular milk too
  • 1 tsp Vanilla extract
  • 1/3 cup Butter, melted and cooled
  • 1/3 cup Cherries, pitted and chopped
  • 1/3 cup Dark chocolate chips
  • Dark chocolate, melted for the glaze

Instructions
 

  • Whisk the flour, cocoa powder, and baking powder in a bowl.
  • Stir in the sugar.
  • In another bowl, whisk together the coconut milk, and vanilla extract.
  • Now gently fold in the flour mixture. Please don't over-mix.
  • Gently stir in the melted butter.
  • Fold in the chopped cherries and chocolate chips.
  • Cover the batter and refrigerate for a minimum of 2 hours or for up to 2 days.
  • When you're ready to bake, preheat your oven to 180C. Grease and flour the madeleine molds. If you have a silicone pan, no prep is needed.
  • Spoon the batter into the molds, about three-quarters of the way. There is no need to level the batter. Bake for 12-14 minutes or until tops are springy to touch and a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean.
  • Turn them out on a cooling rack and let cool completely.
  • To glaze the madeleines - drop a spoonful of melted chocolate into each of the madeleine molds. Use a spoon and pastry brush to coat the mold properly. Make sure the coating is a bit thick. A thin coating will crack/break easily.
  • Place the cooled madeleines into the molds, design side down. Press lightly so all the madeleines get a nice chocolate coating.
  • Place the tray in the freezer for 5-10 minutes, until the chocolate hardens.
  • Tap the tray a couple of times on the kitchen counter to loosen the madeleines and take them out.
  • Repeat with all the madeleines. Place on a serving dish and enjoy!

Notes

Store these madeleines in the refrigerator unless your cool weather permits you to keep them out at room temperature.

Nutrition

Serving: 1 ServingCalories: 149kcalCarbohydrates: 18gProtein: 2gFat: 8gSaturated Fat: 6gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.3gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0.2gCholesterol: 12mgSodium: 99mgPotassium: 84mgFiber: 1gSugar: 6gVitamin A: 140IUVitamin C: 0.4mgCalcium: 45mgIron: 1mg
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  1. EASYFOODSMITH says

    June 15, 2022 at 4:35 pm

    5 stars
    Another gorgeous gorgeous baked creation from you. I can stare at the screen and admire these madeleines the whole day ๐Ÿ˜€

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    • Natasha Minocha says

      June 15, 2022 at 5:58 pm

      Gracias my friend! These are really so simple to make. And the chocolate coating just makes them extra ๐Ÿ™‚

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