Madeleine Sampler

Our Madeleine Sampler honors that culinary tradition with a modern twist, baked in a classic heart shape rather than the original shell. The sampler pairs raspberry madeleines with a sweet raspberry jam filling alongside vanilla madeleines with a rich chocolate-hazelnut filling, giving you equal amounts of each. A sweet gift on their own, or paired with our Cupcakes in Bloom for a colorful dessert spread that turns any occasion into a celebration. Imported from France, they're delicate, buttery, and unmistakably elegant, a little piece of French pastry history worth savoring.

The madeleine's story begins in 18th-century Commercy, in France's Lorraine region, where legend credits a young servant girl named Madeleine Paulmier with baking a batch of small shell-shaped cakes for an exiled king. He was so taken with them that he named the treat after her, and the delicate little dessert cakes soon became a fixture of French pastry cases and tea tables alike.

Nearly two centuries later, the madeleine found a second kind of fame when Marcel Proust wrote of a single bite dipped in tea unlocking a flood of childhood memory — a fitting legacy for a cake this small to have inspired something so lasting.

Choose twelve or twenty-four 2oz. madeleines. Each is a serving.