Data Science of Madeleines

Web data

Marmiton.com

157 different recipes for Madeleines.

• Flour, sugar, butter, and egg proportions in madeleine recipes
• Long tail of madeleine ingredients

Google Trends

Popularity contest between Google searches for "madeleine" and "cupcake".

• Madeleines Vs Cupcakes

Google Correlate

• Google search most correlated to Madeleines

Fun facts

• The French recipe for Madeleines is about 250 years old (so it must be an evolutionary stable strategy for desserts).
• There are 100's of variations of the recipe from sweet to salty.
• Madeleine is slang for a "Slender blond with perfect features" (Urban Dictionary).