Recently I watched this Korean drama "My Lovely Sam Soon" (my most fav K-drama!!) about this 30 year old french pastry chef who found love despite being labeled as plump and unattractive. She mentioned about this small cake called Maleleines. It's also know as French Cake as the French would dip this cake into hot tea before taking a bit. I was immediately drawn to wanting to try bake this small cake as it sounded soooooooo romantic... you know, French stuff... linked with romantic feeling... ou la la... 
I must say it's really easy to bake the lovely Madeleines and they taste great!!! I used non-stick Madeleine cake mold so the cakes came off really nice and in perfect shape. A fantastically delicious cake to have afternoon tea with! 
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Madeleines (makes 18)
Ingredients:
4 eggs
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract (essence)
1 cup all-purpose (plain) flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup butter, melted and cooled
Confectioners' (icing) sugar for dusting
Method:
Preheat oven to 425 deg F (220 deg C). Grease a 12- or 18-mold madeleine pan. In a large bowl, beat eggs and sugar until thick and pale in color. Stir in vanilla. Sift flour and baking powder together onto a piece of waxed paper. Gently stir flour mixture into egg mixture in 3 batches, adding butter with last batch. Cover and refrigerate for 10 mins. Spoon into prepared molds.
Bake for 5 mins. Reduce oven temperature to 400 deg F (200 deg C) and bake for 5 more mins. Let cool in pan for 5 mins, then turn out onto wire racks to cool completely. If using a 12-mold pan, let cool, regrease and use to bake remaining batter. Dust cakes with confectioners' sugar to serve.
Recipe take from book "Muffins & Small Cakes" (avaliable from NLB, call no. 641.8653)
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