canelé
canelés have no cinnamon in them.
i thought that they would when i first heard the word: canelé. since the word for cinnamon in french is cannelle, the confusion is understandable. frog's mum explained that it was the shape that gave them their name.
while on our mini-break we made some of our own - well, actually, frog's mum made them - but we all watched. and here are the results that made a tasty dessert (here exhibited with vanilla ice cream).
interested in making your own? Clotilde from Chocolate and Zucchini has a recipe on her blog with a bit of the history of this tasty treat!
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When my brother arrived in Bordeaux, we tasted cannelés, and it was delicious. They come in 3 degrees of cooking, one can choose, and we heard how these cakes were invented a few centuries ago. At the beginning, it was a charity cake made by Catholic sisters for the poor. They used the spilled flour and sugar they could get in the ships of the Bordeaux big Harbour, and the unused yokes of the many eggs used in the wine making (one part involved the whites to filter the wine, I don't think it's still used now).
Now, it's not a cake for the poor any more! They're so yummy!