Article: The mice have almond ears, the hedgehogs have icing spines. (recipes)

If you own a madeleine pan, you can easily turn the petite, shell-shaped cakes you bake in it into a whimsical menagerie of hedgehogs and mice.

This presentation is a discovery we made in the French village of Herisson (which means hedgehog). You glaze the fluted side of the cakes with icing; very simple decorations turn them into spine-covered hedgehogs or perky mice.

For a two-tone assortment, glaze half the cakes with white icing, then add chocolate to the remaining icing and glaze the remaining cakes.

Madeleine Hedgehogs and Mice

With an electric mixer, beat 1/2 cup butter or margarine and 1-1/4 cups powdered sugar until fluffy. ...

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