Cannelés Bordelais

Unbalanced

% Daily Values based on a 2,000 calorie diet

Step 1

Put the milk and the butter in a saucepan and bring it to the boil.

Step 2

Take it off the heat.

Step 3

Beat the eggs and whisk them in little by little stirring continuously

Step 4

Leave to cool.

Step 5

Mix the flour, the sugar and the rum in a bowl and then add this and the vanilla pod to the milk mixture.

Step 6

Leave to sit until the next day.

Step 7

Sieve.

Step 8

Butter the fluted cake moulds and pour this mixture in leaving 1cm space at the top.

Step 9

Heat the oven to 180°C and cook the cake- lets for 1 hour or until they are dark golden brown. Turn out the cakes whilst still hot.

Step 10

The cakelets are at their best eaten the same day.