[kmstout]

They use a lot of butter and they go well with coffee. Yes. (Both Wikipedia [1] and the Joy of Cooking consider them cakes rather than cookies.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_(cake)

[2] Irma Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, and Ethan Becker. Joy of Cooking (rev. ed.). Scribner. 1997. pp 962-963.

[vjerancrnjak]

Interesting, for some reason I translated the Croatian word "kolačić" for "small cake" to cookie. I guess cookie is not a small cake. In Croatian the expression is "madeleine kolačić".